Our special guest for this segment was Adele Nicholas, a Chicago-based civil rights attorney who has extensively litigated issues concerning registration and related collateral consequences in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Among her recent notable cases are Hoffman v. Village of Pleasant Prairie, in which the court enjoined enforcement of a municipal residency restriction that sought to force registrants to move out of the Village, and Winter v. Schmitz, in which the court prohibited the state of Illinois from labeling a registrant as a “sexual predator” based on a misdemeanor conviction.

The discussion about Murphy v. Raoul was followed by an hour of Can They Do That? followed by Ask the NARSOL Board. King Alexander, a supervising felony without parole attorney in the Calcasieu Parish Public Defender’s Office, was featured on Can They Do That? and took many listener questions. The final hour had several members of the board of directors on the call who also answered questions.

Hour 1:       Review of the decision by Ms. Nicholas followed by audience questions with preference to callers in Illinois;
https://narsol.org/podcast/narsol-in-action-4-25-2019-hour-1

Hour 2:       Can They Do That? with King Alexander;
https://narsol.org/podcast/narsol-in-action-4-25-2019-hour-2

Hour 3:       Ask the NARSOL Board.
https://narsol.org/podcast/narsol-in-action-4-25-2019-hour-3

This is your final notice regarding the conference call scheduled to get underway at 7:00 p.m. eastern time Wednesday, February 7. We will focus on the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court rejecting the Cumberland County District Attorney’s effort to undo the PA Supreme Court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Muniz.

Our special guests will be Lea Bickerton and Robert Cicchinelli. Ms. Bickerton is an attorney in Pittsburgh with extensive experience dealing with registry issues. Mr. Cicchinnelli serves on the board of the Pennsylvania Prison Society and chairs their policy subcommittee for sex offender issues. Theresa Robertson, who is NARSOL’s advocate in PA, will also be assisting us with the call. 

Schedule

7:00 to 7:30: Review of the Muniz Decision by Ms. Bickerton and Mr. Cicchinelli;

7:30 to 8:30: Questions by panel for Ms. Bickerton and Mr. Cicchinelli; 

8:30 to 9:00: Audience questions with preference to callers in PA.

9:00 to 10:00: Open forum and general Q & A.

Although it is not mandatory, we ask that you sign up here so that we have an idea how many will be attending the call. The phone number is 641.715.3660, followed by 957605#.

You may call in directly with a telephone or, if you have a speaker and microphone or a headset with a mic, you may access the call through your computer by going here and following the on-screen directions for inputting the number and the code given above.

New Live Stream Option

We also are going to Live Stream the call on You Tube. There won’t be any video, just an audio stream, so you can try this if you’d rather not call in. You can use your Roku or ChromeCast and have the call played over your TV. How cool is that?

Wednesday, August 2^nd

6:00 to 7:30 p.m. E.D.T.

You are invited to hear about a great victory announced by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the case of Commonwealth v Muniz. See full opinion here. You may also read NARSOL’s analysis of the decision here.

The Court declared that SORNA’s registration provisions constitute punishment under Article 1, Section 17 of the Pennsylvania Constitution — Pennsylvania’s Ex Post Facto Clause. The Court held:

• SORNA’s registration provisions constitute punishment notwithstanding the General Assembly’s identification of the provisions as nonpunitive;
• retroactive application of SORNA’s registration provisions violates the federal ex post facto clause; and
• retroactive application of SORNA’s registration provisions also violates the ex post facto clause of the Pennsylvania Constitution.

Our special guest will be Aaron Marcus. Mr. Marcus is an attorney with the Defender Association of Philadelphia. He is currently assigned to the appellate division, and has tried numerous bench and jury trials since joining the Defender Association in 2006. He also is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Widener Law School teaching criminal procedure. He received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Minnesota in 2004 where he was Editor-in-Chief of Volume XXII of the Journal of Law & Inequality and his B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2001.

Before joining the Defender Association, Mr. Marcus served as a staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He has written and published on issues of drug policy, policing, and federalism. His articles have appeared in the William Mitchell Law Review, the Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy and the Whittier Journal of Child & Family Advocacy.

He is now specializing, writing and lecturing in the area of sex offender registration, law, and policy.

Registration is free; please sign up so we will know how many to expect. The number is 641.715.3660, code 957605#.

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This is your first notice of RSOL’s monthly RSOL Review conference call scheduled
Wednesday evening (February 10th) at 7:30 p.m. eastern time.

Janice Bellucci, President of California RSOL, and Paul Rigney will be our special
guests on the call. Ms. Bellucci will briefly outline her plans to challenge IML upon
the president’s signature. Paul Rigney will explain other aspects of the campaign
including fundraising.

Agenda will include:

IML lawsuit
Update on lawsuit pending in Rhode Island
General Q & A.

The phone number is 641 715-3660 followed by access code 957605#. We ask that you
sign up if you plan to attend so that we have some idea how many participants to expect.