Source: newjerseymonitor.com 2/23/26
Authorities must weigh whether a sex offender convicted in other states committed a crime similar to a Megan’s Law offense before forcing them to register under the law in New Jersey, an appellate court found Monday.
The ruling, which ordered two cases in Secaucus and Union City reopened motions to dismiss and reversed a conviction in the Secaucus case, says authorities in both cases failed to perform an analysis required by law before charging the two men with failing to notify authorities that they had moved.
“Indicting defendants before affording them the opportunity to challenge whether their out-of-state conviction is similar to a New Jersey Megan’s Law crime offends principles of due process and the statute itself,” Judge Morris Smith wrote for the three-judge panel.
The panel sent the case back ,,,
New York does this but the whole system is rigged and doesn’t base it off of current risk. The judge and prosecution in the entire thing are extremely biased and push for a higher level if you oppose the decision of the board.
They made me out to be a drug addicted mad person with a track record as long as a trip around the earth when id only ever had the one crime on my record and don’t use any drugs and quit drinking after that whole situation.
Even when Id hired a lawyer for a level reduction as I do not even live in the country anymore they said I was more of a risk now than ever. How is me living a 30 hour flight away remotely a risk to the people of NY when my original offense was in MI in 2007
I was level 1 in NY, dissemination of indecent material over internet to a minor. I just completed my 20 year regi period, so now no longer registered, not on probation or parole.
I’m thinking about retiring to CA. Do I have to register in CA, or get tiered?
My conviction was in 2006, though in 2008 I incurred another felony conviction for a financial issue. I did not successfully complete SOTP.