Federal judges slam man in sex-offender extortion cases
Robert Anglen
Judges in two federal cases last week ruled against an Arizona man accused of operating an Internet extortion racket that targets sex offenders across the country.
Judges in Arizona and Michigan awarded default judgments to 11 plaintiffs in six states who filed lawsuits against Charles Rodrick, owner of a network of websites that used law-enforcement data to demand payments from people identified as sex offenders.
The two lawsuits accused Rodrick of violating Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations laws and conspiring to extort money from people by threatening to publish their names, photographs and other personal information on the sites even if they had never been arrested and were not required to register as sex offenders.
California Supreme Court Rules Nonviolent Sex Offenders Eligible for Early Parole
The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled this week that a 2016 ballot proposition approved by state voters makes sex offenders convicted of nonviolent crimes eligible for early parole consideration even though its proponents, including the previous governor, say it was never their intention to free sex offenders.
The ruling came Dec. 28 in a prisoner’s habeas corpus application cited as In Re Gregory Gadlin. The opinion was written by Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye. Six other justices concurred in the decision.
The court’s opinion relates that in 2007, a jury convicted the petitioner, Gregory Gadlin, of assault with a deadly weapon, upholding allegations that he had previously been convicted of two serious felonies, specifically, a 1984 conviction for forcible rape, and a 1986 conviction for forcible child molestation. Both convictions required registration under the Sex Offender Registr
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that inmates who have been convicted of nonviolent sex crimes may be eligible for early parole consideration as part of a ballot measure that nearly two-thirds of voters approved of four years ago.
“The initiative’s language provides no indication that the voters intended to allow the (Corrections) Department to create a wholesale exclusion from parole consideration based on an inmate’s sex offense convictions when the inmate was convicted of a nonviolent felony,” wrote Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye in the unanimous decision.
Assemblymember Jim Patterson (AD23 Fresno County and Tulare County) joined Good Morning San Diego to discuss the ruling.
The California Supreme Court ruled on Monday that nonviolent sex offenders can be considered for early parole.
This move on early parole comes as part of a ballot measure that nearly two-thirds of voters approved four years ago, said a report from Los Angeles Times.
Court House News noted that the early parole eligibility passed for all inmates with nonviolent felonies, including sex offenders.
Representing the court s unanimous decision, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation could not deny even the mere possibility of parole to an entire category of inmates under Proposition 57.
So sex offenders and other people convicted of nonviolent felonies will be eligible for early parole after completing the full term of their first offense.