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AZ Lawyer: Adam Walsh Act Unconstitutional

By Corey Rayburnyung

According to an attorney representing a retired police officer facing child pornography charges, the federal Adam Walsh Act is unconstitutional both on its face and as applied to his client. Specifically, the lawyer is challenging a provision of the new law that requires his client to wear an electronic monitoring basis. From the Arizona Daily Star: Michael Piccarreta contends the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act is unconstitutional as a whole and as it applies to his client, Jefferson Sutton Stahl, because it prevents individual judges from determining whether electronic monitoring is needed.Stahl, 62, was indicted in January on three counts of possession of child pornography and one count of receipt of child pornography.His is alleged to have purchased four DVDs containing child pornography in June, one year after retiring from the Tucson Police Department following a 32-year career...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 26, 2010 (boomark / email).