{"id":284,"date":"2018-02-01T12:56:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T17:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgsexcrimeslawyer.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2024-09-06T12:35:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:35:40","slug":"florida-sex-offender-registry-laws-moving-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stpetersburgcriminalattorney.net\/blog\/florida-sex-offender-registry-laws-moving-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Sex Offender Registry Law\u2019s Moving Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida law requires sex offenders deemed sexual predators to keep local law enforcement closely apprised of their whereabouts. It also imposes strict penalties for those who fail to inform the cops within two days of moving. But, as Florida\u2019s Second District Court of Appeal recently pointed out<\/a>, prosecutors who want to charge a person with breaking that law have to specify what it is that the person did wrong.A defendant was arrested and charged with failure to register as a sex offender in Pinellas County in 2014. Although he had registered with local law enforcement, prosecutors said he didn\u2019t properly update his address. He had listed his permanent address as his girlfriend\u2019s home in St. Petersburg. After the two were in a car accident in April 2014, however, he started staying there only once a week. At least that\u2019s what the girlfriend told the cops when they came looking for him in June of the same year. When they caught up with the defendant, he told the cops that he was now staying primarily at a different address in St. Petersburg with his new girlfriend.<\/p>\n

The defendant was convicted and sentenced to nearly six years in jail, despite telling the judge at trial that he was still staying at the first girlfriend\u2019s house. He later appealed the decision. He argued that prosecutors failed to properly file the criminal information, the legal document formally charging him with the crime. He said that document left out essential elements of the crime, which meant that he wasn\u2019t adequately informed about the charge against him prior to trial. The Second District agreed.<\/p>\n

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