by Hal Springer Olympia, WA–The state Supreme Court in August 1993, upheld a unique law that allows the indefinite lockup of sex predators for crimes they might commit. The decision means 20 of Washington State?s most dangerous sex offenders will remain behind bars in a special facility at the state reformatory near Monroe....
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Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Andre Brigham Young, Booth Gardner, Chief Justice Jim Andersen, Community Protection Act, Earl Shriner, Gene Kane, Gerard Sheehan, Jim Dolliver, Justice Barbara Durham, Justices Charles Johnson, King County, Special Commitment Center, Superior Court, Supreme Court
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By DALE WETZEL, Associated Press Writer North Dakota law requires sex offenders to inform police if they get another job, even if they haven’t changed homes, the state Supreme Court ruled. The court’s decision revived a felony case against Michael Darnell Jackson, who did not tell Fargo police he had worked at a...
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May 5, 2004 NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge has ruled that an imprisoned child molester is responsible for the disappearance and presumed death of 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979. State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick said she declared Jose R. Ramos responsible for the boy’s death because he disobeyed her orders to...
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