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U.S. court affirms Meza entitled to sex offender hearing

By "eAdvocate"

10-21-2010 Texas: Convicted child killer still held under miminum security in Travis County as state ponders appeal The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to reconsider a decision that Texas improperly placed sex offender conditions on convicted Austin child killer Raul Meza, affirming an earlier ruling that criticized the way Texas' parole officials handled the case. In a two-page order issued Tuesday, the court refused to reconsider a May decision by a three-judge panel that said parolees must be given a hearing before they can be labeled as sex offenders and forced to comply with stringent rules limiting their freedom, even if they have never been convicted of a sex crime. Such hearings would allow parolees to challenge that designation, a process not allowed previously in Texas and one that state parole officials have argued would be expensive and cumbersome to manage...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on October 22, 2010 (boomark / email).