Where a defendant who pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender argued that retroactive application of the law violated the nondelegation doctrine, under prior case law there was no impermissible delegation, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment ...

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Where a defendant who failed to register with the sex-offender registry moved to dismiss the federal indictment, arguing that retroactive application of the law was unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the defendant’s claim of impermissible delegation, so the ...

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Where a defendant challenged his sentence for failing to register as a sex offender, any error in classifying the defendant as a tier III sex offender was not plain, and the judgment is affirmed because the district court did not ...

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The red flags were there. Earl Webster Cox was already a convicted child sex offender with a history of molesting little girls when 9-year-old Angie Housman was abducted moments after stepping off her school bus in St. Ann in November ...

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The red flags were there. Earl Webster Cox was already a convicted child sex offender with a history of molesting little girls when 9-year-old Angie Housman was abducted moments after stepping off her school bus in St. Ann in November ...

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A young man who admitted to a sex offense as a juvenile will not have to register as a sex offender when he turns 21, according to an interpretation of Missouri law by the Court of Appeals Eastern District.

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Police don’t know the whereabouts of nearly 1,300 registered sex offenders in Missouri, including hundreds who fall into the most dangerous category, according to a state audit released Monday. Missouri law requires convicted sex offenders to register their names, addresses ...

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Police don’t know the whereabouts of nearly 1,300 registered sex offenders in Missouri, including hundreds who fall into the most dangerous category, according to a state audit released Monday. Missouri law requires convicted sex offenders to register their names, addresses ...

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State v. Lutes (MLW No. 71778/Case No. WD80030 – 34 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Pfeiffer, J.)

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State v. Graham (MLW No. 71751/Case No.WD80338 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Witt, J.)

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State v. Williams (MLW No. 71642/Case No. SC96478 – 27 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Wilson, J.; all concur)

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