http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060829/NEWS24/608290360/-1/NEWS
An Ohio legislative panel yesterday rubber-stamped an unprecedented process that would allow sex offenders to be publicly identified and tracked even if they've never been charged with a crime.
QUESTION: DO YOU AGREE THAT OHIO NOW DECLAIR ANYONE AND PLACE THEM ON THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY WITHOUT DUE PROCESS, TRIAL, OR LAWSUIT, BUT ON THE WORD OF ANOTHER WITHOUT PROOF?
2006-09-04 05:47:37 · 14 answers · asked by kiokwus 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060829/NEWS24/608290360/-1/NEWS
wildraft1, read the article. Should this truely become law, will you be placed on the registry without charges or any legal rights? Do you believe this, once passes, will introduce to the remaining 49 states, an example how to destroy thousands more lives cause they said so? Explain your logic please
This is another link.
2006-09-04 06:18:37 · update #1
I totally disagree with what Ohio is trying to do. This will undermine the bedrock of our laws throughout the country. Everything must be done to stop this kind of action! When I grew up this was labeled as Communist thinking...thousands & thousands of my generation died in Viet Nam to prevent communism from spreading. When your neighbor can hold a grudge against you one day and have you thrown on a registry the next...it is time to wake up!
2006-09-06 05:44:11 · answer #1 · answered by may061946 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How many of you idiots actually read the article? Hmmmm?
1 or 2 perhaps?
The article is indicating that you can be put on the sex offenders registry after having been found to be a CIVIL sex offender.
A civil lawsuit would have to be filed and won before you could be placed on the registry.
They cited a specific example of a Roman Catholic priest. If the crime occured 35 years ago then he can't be tried criminally, because the statute of limitations would have been exceeded, however the priest can be tried civilly.
This is just one reason why someone would be tried in civil court.
Remember OJ? He won the criminal case and was found not guilty, but he lost the civil case.
Why? Because certain evidence and testimony are allowed in a civil case that may not be allowed in a criminal case. A technicallity can overturn or exonerate an individual in a criminal case, but that same technicality can be ignored in a civil case.
Here's the bottom line, you did something wrong, it can't be proven in criminial court based on procedure or certain testimony or even taken to criminal court, but it can be proven in civil court.
GUILTY is GUILTY!
Wouldn't you want to know that a rapist is living in your neighborhood?
Wouldn't you want to know that the only reason he doesn't have a criminal conviction is because the evidence wasn't gathered appropriately or a procedure by an officer wasn't done correctly or it has been too long since the occurance?
Use your brain before it atrophies to the size of a raisin.
2006-09-07 11:07:22 · answer #2 · answered by timc_fla 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't believe the Ohio legislature is serious about this! Do they realize how many people get even with their ex-spouses by accusing them of child molestation, how many men are put in prison because a female lied about her age, how many young boys are being arrested as sex offenders for having consentual sex with girls their own age? The sex offender registry has gotten to be a total joke. It can't be relied on to tell us who we should fear because of the people on there who are innocent. Would the fact that the feds are going to pay for lists of sex offenders from each state, thus more offenders = more money, have any bearing on this decision? Why is a sex offense a life sentence, but murder can be pardoned? I pray that this lunacy doesn't spread to other states. God help us all if it does.
2006-09-04 20:46:52 · answer #3 · answered by tinfoot 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't open the link, but from what you are saying, it sounds unconstitutional. Not to mention defamation of character.
Who exactly has the authority to declare them a sex offender and what are the requirements? Is it strictly by admission. The state of Ohio, is opening them selves up for a SERIOUS lawsuit, if someone is willing to push it. They cannot, defame anyones reputation without a charge of some sort, and a guilty verdict.
But like I said I can't open the link to get the full story, but if thats completely true, then it will be in the supreme court in no time.
2006-09-04 12:57:22 · answer #4 · answered by Chrissy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not agree with this. The current laws about who can be put onto a sex offender list is way to wide already. In some states if you are watching an adult movie and a kid walks in the room you are guilty of child molestation with even touching that child. The laws need to be redefined.
2006-09-04 23:00:36 · answer #5 · answered by striper_girl32583 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about due process protection of the 14th Amendment?
Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Wake up America before it is too late. Oh, I do know what I am talking about.
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2014-11-15 10:00:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHAT!!! How can you label someone like that without proof? Isn't that LIBAL, and can't the said offender sue if no proof is made. Perhaps the first person on the list should be the governor. I'll make the accusation, just show me where to place him on the registry.
2006-09-04 12:56:33 · answer #8 · answered by Lotus Phoenix 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For one thing this is totally wrong! If Ohio gets by with it, you can guarantee other states will follow. Florida will be the first in line! I feel certain this will be challenged. If not challenged then Ohio deserves it. You can challenge Pro Se. You don't have to have an attorney. I know people that can help with the challenge.
2006-09-04 13:29:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just one more thing that our government is doing that scares the Hel* out of me. We are slowly turning into a communist state and most Americans are going along like sheep. In Missouri, if you are arrested for peeing in public you are put on the sex offenders list. If you spank your child on the bottom that is also considered a sex offense. So these men are put on the list, along with their picture, and marked and shamed for life. It is very scary!
2006-09-04 12:51:08 · answer #10 · answered by Nunya 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋