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Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 March 2008 12:15 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 19 March 2008 10:05
We don’t imagine there’s too much sympathy out there for sex offenders – regardless of how the punishments are being adjusted.
ELYRIA — In the first day of hearings on complaints from sex offenders who have been reclassified under a new state law, prosecutors and defense attorneys got through nine cases Tuesday.
That leaves at least 361 objections from Lorain County offenders challenging the constitutionality of the new law.
Defense attorneys Laura Perkovic and Kenneth Lieux both argued that the law, which took effect at the beginning of the year, unfairly applies the new registration requirements retroactively.
“There is additional punishment,” Perkovic said. “This is all punitive.”