A man sentenced to at least 50 years in prison for molesting his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter will get a new sentencing because he didn’t have a relationship of “trust and confidence” with the toddler that would support an aggravated ...

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Even though defendant had 20 prior felony convictions when he was convicted of the current peeping offenses, the state did not show that any of his previous convictions involved violence or that they were sexual in nature. Since the state ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A North Carolina man who federal authorities say sexually abused his stepdaughter has been stripped of his United States citizenship and will be deported to Ghana. The News & Observer cites a U.S. Justice Department statement that says Prempeh Ernest ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina’s second-highest court says authorities can’t force a sex-offender to wear a monitoring device for decades because evidence fails to show that tracking protects the public. A divided three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals ruled Aug. ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Federal agents arrested an immigrant who is in the U.S. illegally after a North Carolina sheriff declined their request to keep the registered sex offender in custody, immigration officials said July 25. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said ...

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U.S. v. Cammorto (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-130-17, 13 pp.) (Niemeyer, J.) No. 16-4280, June 13, 2017; USDC at Abingdon, Va. (Jones, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: In sentencing defendant for knowingly failing to register in Virginia as a sex offender, the ...

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State v. Johnson (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-134-17, 21 pp.) (John Tyson, J.) Appealed from Watauga County Superior Court (Michael Duncan, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Defendant was convicted of sexual offense with a child and sexual activity by a substitute parent, ...

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U.S. v. Douglas (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-066-17, 13 pp.) (Traxler, J.) No. 16-4615, March 9, 2017; USDC at Charlottesville, Va. (Moon, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: When sentencing defendant on his guilty plea to failure to register as a sex offender ...

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A divided North Carolina Court of Appeals has vacated a sex offender’s kidnapping conviction, because the victim was restrained while being raped and assaulted. Nathaniel China was convicted of a slew of charges, including first-degree sex offense and second-degree kidnapping, ...

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Parts of a North Carolina law restricting the activities of convicted sex offenders are unconstitutionally vague and overly broad, a federal appeals court has ruled, upholding a lower court ruling from last December. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

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