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Washington Sex Offender's Conviction for Failure to Report Reversed
Loaded on July 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2013, page 45
The en banc Washington State Supreme Court has reversed a defendant's conviction for failure to report as a sex offender, finding that the reporting statute was ambiguous and the evidence presented was insufficient to support the conviction.Prior to 2010, Washington law required all Level II or III sex offenders ...
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