9-29-2009 Missouri:
A Missouri sex offender contends a law requiring him to live more than 1,000 feet from schools and child care centers is unconstitutional.
Attorney Michael Gross represented the sex offender Tuesday before the state Supreme Court. Gross says the law should be tossed out and the sex offender allowed to move into an O'Fallon home. The sex offender was convicted of five felony sex crimes in 1999.
Missouri first enacted the law on where sex offenders can live in 2004.
At issue is whether it's permissible for a law passed after the sex offender's conviction to restrict where he can live. There also is disagreement about whether the 1,000-foot buffer should be measured from building to building or lot line to lot line. ..Source.. by Examiner.com
September 29, 2009
MO- Mo. sex offender challenges residency restrictions
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"There also is disagreement about whether the 1,000-foot buffer should be measured from building to building or lot line to lot line."
The problem being that O'Fallon has it's own 3000 foot local ordinance, so wouldn't that still hold even if he miraculously got the law overturned and would he have to start the whole process over again with a different argument?
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