this state full of liberal moonbats really pisses me off! i don't care about level 3 child rapists' Constitutional rights. these people OFTEN escalate their behavior and KILL kids. and when this guy rapes and murders someone's child then there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth at the State House! dumb fuckers, don't they realize these people DO NOT CHANGE?? GPS is not for punishment, it is to protect children!
yo judges tuttman and gants, maybe he'll snatch YOUR grandchild!
Boston Herald
SJC rules convicted child rapist not required to wear GPS
A convicted child rapist now on the streets serving a 10-year probationary term is not required to wear a GPS device, the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled today.
In a 4-3 decision, the court affirmed a lower court decision denying a request from probation officers to have Level 3 sex offender Ralph Goodwin wear a GPS device while on probation.
“We conclude here that the additional probation condition of GPS monitoring, paired with geographic exclusions, is so punitive in effect as to increase significantly the severity of the original probationary conditions,” wrote Justice Ralph D. Gants.
Probation officers requested GPS monitoring for Goodwin after he finished his jail and civil sentences last summer for kidnapping and raping a 7-year-old boy in 1990.
Superior Court Judge Kathe M. Tuttman, however, ruled last year she did not have the authority to impose the monitoring. In her ruling, Tuttman cited a 2009 SJC decision that decided a 2006 law mandating GPS devices on all sex offenders placed on probation cannot apply retroactively.
The SJC said today GPS monitoring could only be imposed if Goodwin violated the terms of his probation. In presenting his case to the SJC in April, attorney Beth L. Eisenberg said Goodwin was living in Lowell and in compliance with the terms of his probation.
The Herald reported in April that 11 sex offenders were removed from GPS monitoring bracelets last year because of the SJC ruling cited by Tuttman.
As a result of that ruling, 162 sex criminals successfully petitioned the court to end their GPS monitoring and another 160 sex offenders who were convicted after the 2006 law went into effect were also allowed to remove their GPS bracelets.
yo judges tuttman and gants, maybe he'll snatch YOUR grandchild!
Boston Herald
SJC rules convicted child rapist not required to wear GPS
A convicted child rapist now on the streets serving a 10-year probationary term is not required to wear a GPS device, the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled today.
In a 4-3 decision, the court affirmed a lower court decision denying a request from probation officers to have Level 3 sex offender Ralph Goodwin wear a GPS device while on probation.
“We conclude here that the additional probation condition of GPS monitoring, paired with geographic exclusions, is so punitive in effect as to increase significantly the severity of the original probationary conditions,” wrote Justice Ralph D. Gants.
Probation officers requested GPS monitoring for Goodwin after he finished his jail and civil sentences last summer for kidnapping and raping a 7-year-old boy in 1990.
Superior Court Judge Kathe M. Tuttman, however, ruled last year she did not have the authority to impose the monitoring. In her ruling, Tuttman cited a 2009 SJC decision that decided a 2006 law mandating GPS devices on all sex offenders placed on probation cannot apply retroactively.
The SJC said today GPS monitoring could only be imposed if Goodwin violated the terms of his probation. In presenting his case to the SJC in April, attorney Beth L. Eisenberg said Goodwin was living in Lowell and in compliance with the terms of his probation.
The Herald reported in April that 11 sex offenders were removed from GPS monitoring bracelets last year because of the SJC ruling cited by Tuttman.
As a result of that ruling, 162 sex criminals successfully petitioned the court to end their GPS monitoring and another 160 sex offenders who were convicted after the 2006 law went into effect were also allowed to remove their GPS bracelets.