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ID - Justices remove man's violent sex predator status

View the article here 02/11/2009 By REBECCA BOONE - Associated Press Writer BOISE ? The Idaho Supreme Court has found that the state's method of classifying violent sexual predators is unconstitutional and has ordered that the label be removed from a man who admitted to raping three children. The 28-page ruling was handed down Tuesday by a divided court in the case of _____, who was sent to prison for the 1998 rape of a 15-year-old girl in Twin Falls County and who admitted to raping three young boys. Before his release in 2005, the Sexual Offender Classification Board said that _____ should be labeled a violent sexual predator, and a 5th District Judge upheld the classification. But the Idaho Supreme Court threw out the classification, saying that Idaho's laws dictating how violent sexual predators are classified are unconstitutional because they don't give offenders an adequate chance to fight the label...continue to full post

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