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Commission members urge revisiting mandatory minimums for failure-to-register and felon-in-possession offenses
Summary
Staff summarized practitioner input on registration-of-predatory-offender offenses and certain firearm-possession offenses; commissioners recommended narrowing mandatory minimums, distinguishing technical failures from willful noncompliance, and considering removing some registration offenses from the predatory-offender grid.
Staff reported a concentrated review of three offenses in offense group 2: registration of a predatory offender (first offense), registration of a predatory offender (subsequent offense), and certain-persons-not-to-possess-a-firearm-or-ammunition (felon-in-possession). The packets compiled practitioner feedback and suggested legislative recommendations on mandatory minimums.
Staff told the commission the majority of respondents favored a legislative reconsideration of mandatory minimums for registration failures, with several suggestions: eliminate the mandatory minimum for a first failure and reserve incarceration for repeat or clearly willful noncompliance; exclude…
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