The Missouri Supreme Court determined that someone who has been on the national sex offender registry must remain on the state’s registry for life.

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St. Louis County police’s attempts to register two tier I sex offenders for life failed in the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District — though the Western District affirmed a similar case last month.

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Where the state challenged the grant of a petition to respondent, who claimed he was exempt from registration as a sex offender, the trial court did not err in finding that the respondent was exempt from registration requirements pursuant to ...

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Where appellants including the highway patrol challenged a judgment granting petitioner’s request to have his name removed from the state’s sex offender registry, the meaning of the upgrade provision for repeat tier I offenders is an issue of first impression, ...

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The Court of Appeals Western District ruled Sept. 24 that a northwestern Missouri man isn’t subject to life on the state’s sex-offender registry just because his crime has been renamed. Danny Joe Dixon, then 47, pleaded guilty in 2003 to ...

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Where a defendant, who was required to register as a sex offender after he failed to report his Facebook accounts, claimed that his counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that the relevant Missouri statute was unconstitutional in light of ...

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Defendant appealed the dismissal of his petition for removal from the sex offender registry. On appeal, defendant challenged his classification as a tier III sex offender under SORA and his accompanying ineligibility for removal from the registry and argued that ...

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Peters v. Jackson County Sheriff (MLW No. 71504/Case No. WD80898 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Newton, J.)

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Petrovick v. State (MLW No. 71331/Case No. WD80337 – 7 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Ahuja, J.)

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Wilkerson v. State (MLW No. 71081/Case No. WD79996 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Ahuja, J.)

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A.W. v. State of Nebraska (MLW No. 70831/Case No. 16-1898 – 11 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Beam, J.)

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