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Criminal

Jun. 22, 2006

Penile Testing Is Too Orwellian for 9th Circuit

Judges cannot order convicted sex offenders to be hooked up to a machine that checks their sexual arousal levels without first considering less drastic options, a unanimous federal appellate panel ruled Tuesday.

By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer


Judges cannot order convicted sex offenders to be hooked up to a machine that checks their sexual arousal levels without first considering less drastic options, a unanimous federal appellate panel ruled Tuesday.
      A Woodland Hills man caught with hundreds of child pornography images on his computer challenged the monitoring of his groin as a condition of his...

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