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Appeals panel hears challenge to clinical language and expert weight in impounded offender-registry decision
Summary
An attorney for an impounded registrant urged the appeals panel to remand, arguing a hearing examiner’s use of clinical-sounding "deviant" language and rejection of expert testimony on time-in-community were prejudicial; the registry board defended the examiner’s regulatory interpretation and urged affirmance.
A three-judge appeals panel on Friday heard arguments in an impounded appeal of an Offender Registry Board classification, where counsel for the registrant argued the hearing examiner relied on inflammatory clinical language and improperly discounted expert evidence.
Mister Campbell, representing the registrant identified in court as John Doe, told the panel the examiner’s use of phrasing describing a "deviant ... interest in non-consenting females" imported a clinical judgment that should have been made only by…
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