Focus (Forum & Focus)
Oct. 16, 2007
Cruel and Unusual Rulings
Forum Column - By Michael Willemsen - California courts that have tried to skirt the question of whether registration for sex offenders violates the Eighth Amendment have concocted a rationale that gives government sweeping powers to "protect the public."
By Michael Willemsen
Proposition 83, an initiative measure enacted in 2006, substantially altered California's sex offender registration laws. Some of Proposition 83's provisions were clearly penal in character: The proposition changed the definition of certain sexual offenses, and increased the term of imprisonment or the period of parole for some offenses.
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