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Adel, Ia. — Former Iowa Hawkeye Pierre Pierce, who avoided a jail sentence
in 2002 after being accused of sexual assault and was given a second chance to
play big-time college basketball, was ordered to prison Friday for assaulting
and terrorizing a former girlfriend in January....
...Hulse rejected a defense appeal for a deferred judgment or suspended
sentence. He noted that Pierce had received no jail time after pleading guilty
in 2002 of assault causing injury in an alleged sexual assault case in Iowa
City.To allow a deferred judgment "would seriously depreciate the seriousness of
these offenses," Hulse said. "The defendant is in need of correctional
assistance, which can most effectively be provided by confinement." Continue
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Reading the news today, I was taken back to see that the Florida Sex Offender registry was being criticized. Having had the chance to look at it previously, I had always found it rather informative, and well organized. The issue that many are having with it now wouldn't be noticed by the occasional browser on the site. Which makes it even worse. A review of the FSR has found some rather unsettling statistics: The News-Press analyzed the Florida Department of Law Enforcement database of 36,306 sex offenders and found: • 9,205 of them are incarcerated • 7,037 have run away or can't be found • 824 have been deported; and • 516 are dead. Of the 15,573 sex offenders listed as released and not on parole or probation, only 11,355 of those actually live in Florida. Sex offender registries can only be usefully, and only fully do what they where designed to do when they are updated, maintained and monitored continuously. When you are relying on the SO registries to monitors how safe your...
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