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Appeal To SJC Successful As Court Overturns Failure To Register Conviction For Boston Serial Sex Offender ? Attorney Sam?s Take

By Altman & Altman

It?s stories like this that helps me love what I do for a living; you just never know what is going to happen next! Just when we see debacles like the one surrounding the Parole Board because of a recent police killing, and we see the predictable scurrying about by prosecutorial politicians to make sure that they cannot be splattered with blame, the Supreme Judicial Court takes the opposite tact. They look to uphold people?s rights...despite the likely public outcry. Specifically, the court dealt with the case of Malcolm S. Maker, a 52-year-old convicted sex offender (hereinafter, the ?Appellant? ). The Appellant had been convicted for failing to register his address with the Boston police department within two days of his release from jail, as required by the state Sex Offender Registry Board (SORB)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on March 04, 2011 (boomark / email).