One-fourth of the names on Maryland’s sex-offender registry might be removed after the state’s top court on Monday expanded upon a ruling that adding offenders from before the list was created violated the state’s Constitution.
The Court of Appeals declared last year that the state could not require the registration of people who committed their crimes before October 1995, when the database was established. State officials removed the one name in question in that case but maintained that federal law required them to keep older cases in the database.
On Monday, the judges ruled in that case and another one that federal law doesn’t override the state’s Constitution.
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This over priced and unproven to work list is soon to be GONE. Lets face it. If this list was so great at preventing crime. Would they not have created a list for all types of violent crimes ??? This list was created by your Politicians for political hype and gain and it got your votes and now the list is being torn apart case by case and is now so watered down that it is even more worthless than it was from the get go.
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