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Appeals court hears challenge to Sex Offender Registry Board weighting of medical mitigation
Summary
On appeal from the Sex Offender Registry Board, counsel urged that post‑hearing medical letters showing a chronic prognosis should have been in the hearing record and that their absence led to only "moderate" mitigation for serious disabilities; the board defended the hearing examiner's discretion and the timing of records.
May it please the court. The Appeals Court heard argument in a challenge to the Sex Offender Registry Board's determination that a petitioner should be classified as a level‑one offender; attorney Edward Gothier said the hearing examiner gave only moderate weight to the petitioner's physical disabilities because no treating‑provider prognosis letter had been submitted…
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