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Ohio Supreme Court declares unconstitutional changes to state sex offender rules pushed by feds

By Douglas A. Berman

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The Ohio Supreme Court handed down an intriguing sex offender registration ruling this morning in State v. Bodyke, No. 2010-Ohio-2424 (June 3, 2010) (available here). The Ohio Supreme Court does everyone the favor of producing an official press release with its decisions, and the Bodyke press release summarizes today's ruling this way: In a narrowly tailored decision announced today, the Supreme Court of Ohio voided as unconstitutional two sections of the Ohio Adam Walsh Act (AWA) that authorize the state attorney general to reclassify sex offenders who had already been classified by judges under a previous version of the law, ?Megan?s Law.? The Court held that the challenged provisions violate the separation-of-powers doctrine of the Ohio Constitution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).

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