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Missouri high court limits application of sex offender residency restriction

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to this post at Sex Crimes, I see that the Ohio Supreme Court is not alone in issuing an important ruling limiting the application of a state residency restriction.  As detailed in this AP story, though "a unanimous ruling Tuesday, Missouri's high court upheld a decision in May by a circuit judge striking down a portion of Missouri's sex offender statutes that could have forced the sex offenders to move."  The ruling came in R.L. v. Missouri Department of Corrections, No. SC88644 (Missouri Feb. 19, 2008) (available here), and here is the opinion's summary: Section 566.147, as applied to R.L. and those similarly situated, violates the bar on retrospective laws set forth in article I, section 13 of the state constitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 21, 2008 (boomark / email).