{"id":1024,"date":"2018-11-23T16:28:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T22:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2019-10-21T15:34:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:34:49","slug":"meredith-v-stein-e-d-n-c-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2018\/11\/23\/meredith-v-stein-e-d-n-c-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Meredith v. Stein (E.D. N.C. 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"introduction-wrapper\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Meredith v. Stein, No. 17- CV\u2013528 (E.D. N.C. 2018)<\/h2>\n<p><strong><strong>Nature of Case: <\/strong><\/strong> Plaintiff brought suit after moving to North Carolina and NC Sheriff&#8217;s deputies, after several years, determined that a misdemeanor Washington state offense was &#8220;substantially similar&#8221; to a registerable North Carolina offense and ordered him to register. Plaintiff alleged that lack of procedure violated 14th Amendment Procedural Due Process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holding:\u00a0<\/strong> Given that no process exists for people to challenge their classification as sex offenders under state&#8217;s &#8220;substantially similar&#8221; scheme, state violated Plaintiff&#8217;s procedural due process rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Case Documents<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2018\/11\/District-Court-Opinion.pdf\">District Court Opinion<\/a>| view via <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=15195542641658829828&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=lang_en&amp;as_sdt=4000006&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholaralrt&amp;hist=dzTKkIsAAAAJ:4548515027500177863:AAGBfm2JqWl9YhGWFd0GFhpIF2HIBNAurw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>News and Related Materials<\/em><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil lawsuit brought by person who moved to North Carolina and was told his Washington state misdemeanor conviction was &#8220;substantially similar&#8221; to registerable offense in North Carolina. Summary judgment granted for Plaintiff, finding that Procedural Due Process was violated. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2018\/11\/23\/meredith-v-stein-e-d-n-c-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Meredith v. Stein (E.D. N.C. 2018)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,54,212,117,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-1024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sorn-cases","7":"tag-14th-amendment","8":"tag-4th-cir","9":"tag-north-carolina","10":"tag-out-of-state-offense","11":"tag-procedural-due-process","12":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}