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Remote Sex Conviction Cannot Support Sex Offender Treatment Condition

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Sentencing, Parole, Sex Offender Treatment. Location: Tennessee.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a 17-year-old conviction was too remote in time to warrant a special supervised release condition mandating sex offender treatment, but left open whether a more recent stalking conviction warranted imposition of the special condition.

Before the Court was the appeal of ...

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