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Vermont Supreme Court Invalidates Sex Offender Probation Conditions

Loaded on Oct. 9, 2017 published in Prison Legal News October, 2017, page 26
Filed under: Sex Offender Residence, Probation. Location: Vermont.

Last year the Vermont Supreme Court vacated four sex offender probation conditions, finding that they improperly delegated judicial authority to probation officers and were overbroad, unconstitutional or based upon insufficient findings.

In 2013, Owen Cornell was convicted of a sex offense and sentenced to two to six years in prison. ...

 

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