The 8th Circuit Court has ruled in favor of a 15-year-old boy whose family sued the Nebraska State Patrol to keep him from being put on the state's sex offender registry for a juvenile case in Minnesota.
Attorney Joshua Weir, who represented the boy and his family, said Monday that common sense finally prevailed.
He said he didn't realize that the State Patrol was putting minors — whose cases were handled in juvenile court in other states and who later moved to Nebraska — on the public registry until this case came up.
It never made any sense, Weir said.
Nebraska's registry excludes juveniles prosecuted in Nebraska unless they were prosecuted criminally in adult court. Minnesota's juvenile registry isn't public.
From the start, the Nebraska Attorney General's office conceded that if the boy had done in Nebraska exactly what he did in Minnesota, he wouldn't have been required to register as a sex offender. ..Continue..
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