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Eight years in state prison for failure to register as a sex offender

By Douglas A. Berman

This local story from Ohio, headlined "Sex offender gets 8 years for not registering," reports on the longest prison terms I can recall seeing for merely failing to register as a sex offender.  The story provides only these sketchy details: A 41-year-old Akron man was sentenced to eight years in prison late Thursday after being found guilty of failing to register as a sex offender. Summit County Common Pleas Judge Lynne Callahan found Clifford Godfrey guilty of failing to register as a sex offender and failing to register a change of address. The Summit County Prosecutor's office said Godfrey was released from prison on May 14 after serving a term for corruption of a minor.  Upon release, he registered the address where he would be living with the department of corrections...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 12, 2009 (boomark / email).