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Change in law will keep Portsmouth sex offender locked up

By "eAdvocate"

Most important here is what the prosecutor says:'We don't have to prove a sexual offense is going to be the first crime he commits when he gets out," John McLees, a senior assistant attorney general, told jurors. The likelihood that at some point he would do so was sufficient, he said.' Under that standard, anyone could be held in civil commitment, given 95% of new sex crimes are committed by

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