| Sex Offenders Registration Act Litigation |
A new lawsuit has been filed to challenge various continued retrospective applications of SORA. First, it challenges the Missouri requirement of life-time registrations for persons convicted in other states before 1995, urging the courts to apply the same Retrospective Doctrine that the Missouri Supreme Court used to strike down Missouri convictions before 1995 as a basis for requiring registration. Second, it also seeks to apply that doctrine to invalidate the registration requirement for those whose military convictions or guilty pleas predate January 1, 1995 or August 28, 2000, depending upon which date actually was applied by authorities to require these persons to register. Third, the new lawsuit attempts to apply the same doctrine to invalidate the registration requirement for those who were required to register because of a misdemeanor conviction or plea predating August 28, 2002.
If you or someone you know would like to help fund this new lawsuit, contact Arthur Benson by email: abenson (at) bensonlaw.com. The name of the new lawsuit is Doe v. Keathley, and it is Case No. 0616-CV-35929, pending in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, Division 18, Judge Jon R. Gray. Docket sheets, hearing dates, and other information about the case may be found on Missouri Case.Net. To read documents filed in the case, click the links below.
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