As has now been much discussed, CNN's breaking news team shed some tears over the weekend for those “two young men that had such promising futures” in Steubenville. Here is what their legal expert, Paul Callan, actually said:
But in terms of what happens now, yes, the most severe thing with these young men is being labeled as registered sex offenders. That label is now placed on them by Ohio law and, by the way, the laws in most other states now require such a designation in the face of such a serious crime.
That will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Employers, when looking up their background, will see they're registered sex offender. When they move into a new neighborhood and somebody goes on the Internet where these things are posted. Neighbors will know they're a registered sex offender.
This is heartrending to CNN, but it’s also flat wrong. Ma'lik Richmond and Trent Mays have not been put on the sex offender registry “by Ohio law,” “for the rest of their lives” or otherwise. It’s not clear they ever will be. Had Mays and Richmond been tried a year ago, then yes, they might have triggered an Ohio statute automatically putting them on the registry. But in April 2012, the Ohio Supreme Court declared mandatory lifetime registration of juvenile sex offenders to be “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment.
Via: Why the Steubenville Rapists Wont Be Labeled for Life
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