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Fifth Circuit: Sex Offender Conditions May be Imposed for Prior Sex Offense
Loaded on May 15, 2011
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2011, page 46
by Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Ex Post Facto,
Parole,
Parole Conditions,
Mental Health,
Sex Offender Treatment.
Location:
Texas.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a person on parole for a crime that was not a sex offense, but who had completed a sentence for a prior sex offense conviction, could be subjected to sex offender parole restrictions.
David Brian Jennings was on parole …
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