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KY AG Asks SCOTUS To Stay Residency Decision

By Corey Rayburnyung

After the Kentucky Supreme Court denied a stay in a challenge to the retroactive application of the state's residency restrictions, the state Attorney General has filed a motion in the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an earlier decision. You may read the motion here. From a press release:Attorney General Jack Conway today filed a motion with the United States Supreme Court asking it to stay the recent ruling by the Kentucky Supreme Court that lifts the residency restrictions for all registered sex offenders who committed their crimes before July 12, 2006 ? meaning more than 5,500 sex offenders could live next to schools and daycares.  General Conway and his Office of Criminal Appeals are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the state ruling until it decides whether or not to review Kentucky?s case...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on November 10, 2009 (boomark / email).