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Indiana Sex Offender Registration Law Can Not Be Retroactively Applied
Loaded on July 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2010, page 22
The Indiana Sex Offender Registration Act (ISRA) can not be applied to offenders who committed their crimes before the statute’s enactment, the Indiana Supreme Court decided on January 6, 2010.
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Sex Offender Registration,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Retroactivity.
Location:
Indiana.
Gary M. Hevner was convicted in 2008 of possessing child pornography after downloading illegal images to his computer. In addition ...
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