Becher v. State
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The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the district court denying Appellant's application to modify his sex offender registry requirements, holding that the district court erred in penalizing Defendant for his years of successful adjustment to sex offender registration.
In 2000, Defendant pled guilty to two counts of sexual abuse in the third degree, making him subject to lifetime as a sex offender. Defendant was released in 2009 and, since then, had been on the registry without any violation of the registration requirements. In 2019, Defendant filed an application for modification of his sex offender registry requirements pursuant to Iowa Code 692A.128. The district court denied the application. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that the district court abused its discretion by not putting Defendant's STATIC-99R score into proper context and improperly relied on the absence of a stipulation with the Iowa Department of Correctional Services approving of a modification of the registration requirement.
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