john legality
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Thank you for a civilized answer. My concern is that I am a United States citizen, I should therefore be free to travel to any State in the union unfettered. Sex offender requirements don't apply to only were you reside, I need to register in every state I visit even briefly.Another state cannot re-litigate your sex offense. Hasn't this been repeated several times now?
What another state might do is consider Massachusetts law as it relates to your offense, but another state will work within their own laws to determine if you need to register in the state or not, and under what terms.
In one of the many many threads you have started about your sex offense, I briefly touched on Michigan's laws. You might not have to register at all in Michigan if in Massachusetts your ten-year registration period has expired - this even though Michigan requires a sex offender in the state to be registered for between 15 years to life depending on the offense (for a Tier 2 offense, for example, registration is 25 years and, now, there is a new requirement for Tier 1 offenses to have a 15 year registration).
It will depend on all facts, though, and if you want to review these facts with an attorney in Massachusetts or one where you anticipate moving, you can do that to get a better idea of what you face.
The case in Massachusetts you mentioned dealt with Massachusetts' new law that allows for information on Tier 2 offenders to be published online, where before under Massachusetts law only Tier 3 offenders had their information publicly disseminated in this way. The question for the court was whether those who offended prior to the enactment of the law fell under the new law.
Before you move to another state, you must learn the laws of that state and how that state would handle your Massachusetts offense. No one here, however, is going to provide you with the laws of all 50 states. If you want to give us the name of the state you plan to move to, we can provide you with the laws of that state and, perhaps, give you some guidance.
They have morfed into prohibiting existence in specific places considered safety zones. I can't legally take my family on a cross country trip (griswalds) without facing a cumulative punishment of a lifetime in prison.
This is makes me a non-citizen