Tag: Recapture Provision

Source: Florida Action Committee 7/23/26 In a unanimous decision rendered yesterday, the Michigan Supreme Court struck down a key piece of the state’s Sex Offenders Registration Act — the so-called “recapture” provision, which forced people with old, pre-1995 sex offense convictions back onto the registry decades later if they were later convicted of any unrelated felony, sexual or not. James Ellis Jr. pleaded guilty to attempted rape in Illinois in 1983 and served his sentence — six months in jail, two years of probation. He was never required to register…

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