{"id":490,"date":"2017-10-27T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/?p=490"},"modified":"2019-10-21T15:29:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:29:24","slug":"doe-v-sex-offender-registry-board-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2017\/10\/27\/doe-v-sex-offender-registry-board-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Doe v. Sex Offender Registry Board (Mass. 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"introduction-wrapper\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Doe v. Sex Offender Registry Board, 41 N.E.3d 1058 (Mass. 2015)<\/h2>\n<p><strong><strong>Nature of Case:\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Plaintiff was a registrant who, under state SORN law, was assessed as a level two sex offender under state law, meaning having a moderate risk of re-offense on a preponderance of the evidence standard. Filed suit challenging classification.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holding:\u00a0<\/strong>SJC of Massachusetts held that, in light of SORNs subsequent amendments, preponderance standard no longer sufficed to safeguard Due Proess. Clear and convincing evidence would now be required.<\/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\/2017\/10\/doe-v-sorb-opinion.pdf\">Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Opinion<\/a> | view via <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=10918524127507949736&amp;q=SJC-11823+Doe&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4000006\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>News and Related Materials<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox25boston.com\/news\/court-ruling-will-likely-slow-posting-of-level-2-3-sex-offender-info\/440447102\">Judge says sex offender&#8217;s right to due process trumps public safety<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts found that preponderance of the evidence standard no longer sufficed for comporting with Due Process for tiering of sex offenders, clear and convincing standard would be required.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2017\/10\/27\/doe-v-sex-offender-registry-board-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Doe v. Sex Offender Registry Board (Mass. 2015)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"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":[13,9],"tags":[179,47,208,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sex-offense-litigation-and-policy-resource-center","7":"category-sorn-cases","8":"tag-1st-cir","9":"tag-due-process","10":"tag-massachusetts","11":"tag-tiering-classification","12":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}