Michigan Homless and Sex Offender Registration: Court Decision

2-3-2010 Michigan:

Today the State Court of Appeals -on remand from the State Supreme court- issued its decision in the case of a homeless person who was charged with failure to register (FTR).

In essence, the trial court dismissed the charge of FTR and the prosecutor appealed the decision, then the prosecutor missed a filing deadline, and the court of appeals would not hear the case. Then that was appealed to the Michigan Supreme court which issued an order remanding the case back to the court of appeals, telling them to hear the case. Right what a mess.

Well the court of appeals issued its decision today and that can be found in our blog "Sex Offenders - In the Courts" Michigan, case is People -v- Dowdy.

The essence of what happened is, he does not have to register because the legislature failed to setup a procedure to handle homeless sex offenders. I'll bet following this decision the legislature will act with a quickness to correct this.

Enjoy,
eAdvocate