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Criminal Law: Sex Offender Registry-Removal
Staff Report//December 23, 2025//
The Missouri State Highway Patrol appealed the trial court’s judgment finding petitioner exempt from the sex offender registry and ordering the removal of his name. The superintendent argued that Missouri law required out-of-state sex offenders to register in Missouri without exemption, and that the trial court granted unauthorized relief as the exemptions did not permit the removal of a person’s name without meeting statutory removal requirements.
Where police were responding to an exigent circumstance, the warrantless search was valid, and there was sufficient evidence to prove that defendant was engaged in drug trafficking and that police had grounds to arrest defendant and indicated to defendant that they intended to do so.
Judgment is affirmed.
S.C. v. Gore (MLW No. 84105/Case No. ED113332 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Dowd, J.) Appealed from circuit court, City of St. Louis, Whyte, J. (Richard N. Groeneman for appellant) (Matthew A. Radefeld and Timothy A. Layton for respondent)
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