Hypothetical about Sex Offender Registry Statute

[sisyphus]

In Massachusetts the court is required to notify a defendant of his obligation to register when he is convicted of a qualifying offense.

If a defendant plead guilty before the requirement came into effect, but after the registry statute was enacted(1 month after) could he successfully argue that his plea agreement was violated if it did not include registering as a sex offender? Is the defendants lack of knowledge of the recently enacted statute an issue that has merit?

May the court vacate his sentence and re-sentence?

 

[cbg]

homework (thirty character limit)

 

[sisyphus]

That's not very helpful, quack

 

[mightymoose]

Not helpful, but it is the correct response.

 

[cbg]

It wasn't intended to be.

The responders on these and other legal forums are volunteers who have to try to fit this in around their jobs and families and other elements of their lives. Their purpose is to assist real people with real situations, not to answer your hypothetical questions or to do your homework for you. That's what Google is for.

 

[sisyphus]

It wasn't intended to be.

The responders on these and other legal forums are volunteers who have to try to fit this in around their jobs and families and other elements of their lives. Their purpose is to assist real people with real situations, not to answer your hypothetical questions or to do your homework for you. That's what Google is for.

I very much appreciate any help the good folks on this forum provide.

I just do my best to pose my questions in a manner that "legal folk" can appreciate.

I don't want to spend a lot of time explaining so I try to be as concise as possible to get the answers I'm looking for. This comes of as me posing "one off" questions for a homework assignment but that is not what it is.

 

[sisyphus]

If you must know it is not really hypothetical,

I genuinely need answers to real problems