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Due Process Mandatory Before Texas Requires Sex Offender Registration for Crimes not Covered by Statute

Loaded on May 7, 2018 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News May, 2018, page 46
Filed under: Sex Offender Registration, Sentencing, Due Process. Location: Texas.

by Matt Clarke

On August 8, 2017, a Texas federal district court determined that requiring a person on community supervision to register as a sex offender for a crime not covered by the Texas Sex Offender Registration Act, Art. 62.001 et seq., Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, without first affording ...

 

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