Transgender sex offender cannot change name to avoid sex offender registry
A transgender individual attempted to change “her” name to a female name. However, to keep with the requirements to register the name that was used at the time of the offense, “she” was prohibited from doing so. The transgendered individual took this case all the way up to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. However, the state’s high court rejected the transgender’s argument. The name, at the time of the offense, must be maintained.
From the Washington Examiner:
In a 4-3 ruling by the conservative-led court, justices cited the state’s law forbidding people on the registry from changing their names or using aliases. The case surrounds a 22-year-old transgender woman, identified in court only as Ella, who was placed on the registry at the age of 15 for sexually assaulting a disabled 14-year-old boy, according to court records.
Ella’s “size” at the time of the assault is critical to understanding the “forceful nature of the sexual assault,” the court noted, as the incident occurred before the petitioner’s decision to identify as a transgender woman. Ella was 6 feet and 5 inches tall and over 300 pounds at the time when the victim, who weighed 110 pounds and was blind in one eye, was sexually assaulted.
Attorneys for Ella argued preventing the name change and removal from the sex offender registry violated the First and Eighth Amendments as a violation of free speech as well as cruel and unusual punishment, though the court rejected both arguments.
“Consistent with well established precedent, we hold Ella’s placement on the sex offender registry is not a ‘punishment’ under the Eighth Amendment,” Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote for the majority. “Even if it were, sex offender registration is neither cruel nor unusual. We further hold Ella’s right to free speech does not encompass the power to compel the State to facilitate a change of her legal name.”
The Washington Examiner has the article, and court case, here.
Category: Liberals suck, Society
“So let it be written, so let it be done”
4-3 in favor of this demented pedophile using a loophole to get off the sex offender registry for what appears to be a horrific crime.
4-3. How about 7-0 in favor.
Its a sad world we live in, my friends.
Prog lawers who become judges gotta prog. It is what they do, no matter how stoopid.
What the shit? Why was this close?!
The freak should just moved to LA….
The second half explains my statement but the whole is worth a watch, fair warning tho: violence and computer-punch advisory.
https://youtu.be/GOtEUL9SNN8
I’m close to getting mad, so instead of tearing of my clothes, running down the close to the cul-de-sac stark mad, I’m just gonna close my eyes and rest.
English ffs. Close is a woody word, if you know what I mean. winkwinknudgenudge (I find youtube’s lack of MPFC clips disturbing)
Seems to me that three of the Justices need to read and comprehend what the state law is. “…forbidding people on the registry from changing their names…” Pretty straight forward.
Also seems to me that this mofo needs to be violated…violently!
IMO that shoulda-been a 7-0 decision, apparently Law Schools do a lot of liberal brainwashing these days.
Never forget
Glad my law school run was long, long ago. We didn’t get brainwashed, just educated so we could pass the Bar exam and hopefully, competently practice law.
Unfortunately, some slipped through the cracks, even in the good old days.
Exhibit A: Daniel A. Bernath
On the plus side, ol’ Dan is still maintaining a steady altitude of -6’ AGL and an airspeed of 0 knots. Steady as she goes, Dan. Steady as she goes!
Oh, there has never been a shortage of corrupt and incompetent lawers in this country. I know, I have had first hand experience with them for almost 40 years. It is the principal reason I dislike lawers. Fortunately, many of the ones I fought and despised the most are now either dead or disbarred. The one exception is a fellow I was locked in court room combat for six weeks of trial and two appeals, but then he had a bad stroke about fifteen years ago and is now a drooling invalid.
A 300 pound trannie. Talk about throwing good money after bad. Probably saved a bundle by skipping the breast implants, though.
WTF?