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"Court rejects state banishment of sex offender"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this local article reporting on a state intermediate appellate court ruling out of Mississippi.  Here are the particulars: The state Court of Appeals has thrown out a lower court order that a McComb man be banished from Mississippi once he completes a 25-year sentence for a sex crime conviction. Richard A. Simoneaux pleaded guilty in 2004 in Pike County to spying on and assaulting nursing home residents. Simoneaux pleaded guilty to attempted burglary, two counts voyeurism, sexual battery, sexual abuse of a vulnerable adult and burglary of a dwelling.... The trial judge sentenced Simoneaux to a total of 30 years without parole with five years suspended. The judge also ordered Simoneaux to leave Mississippi once he is released from prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 28, 2009 (boomark / email).