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Michigan Court Rules that Bestiality Crime Doesn't Result in Registry Listing

By Corey Rayburnyung

A recent ruling from the Michigan Court of Appeals found that a man who pled no contest "to sodomizing a sheep does not have to register as a sex offender after his release from prison."  You can view the opinion here. From the Chicago Tribune:In a 3-0 opinion released Wednesday, the appeals court said the state sex offender registry is intended to track people who have committed crimes against humans, not animals. Judges Jane Markey, William Whitbeck and Elizabeth Gleicher vacated a Calhoun County judge's order that [the man] register as a sex offender upon his release. They said "courts may not read or include provisions into a statute that the Legislature did not." Calhoun County Prosecutor John Hallacy, who wanted [the man] on the sex offender list, called the ruling "well thought out" and said he would not appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).