RICKY LEE STROSNIDER v. COLONEL RONALD REPLOGLE, Missouri State Highway Patrol Superintendent, Defendant-Respondent, and RANDY MARTIN, Crawford County Sheriff's Department, and J. KENT HOWALD, Crawford County Prosecutor, Defendants-Respondents.

DON E. BURRELL,

AUTHOR

Ricky Lee Strosnider (“Plaintiff”) appeals the judgment denying his petition for declaratory judgment seeking to have his name removed from the Missouri sex offender registry. See section 589.400. 1 Plaintiffs sole point on appeal claims “[t]he trial court erred as a matter of law ... because [Plaintiff] did not knowingly fail to comply with the sex offender registration requirements of § 589.400.” Finding no merit in the claim, we affirm.

Applicable Principles of Review and Governing Law

Although the trial court denied [Plaintiff’s] declaratory judgment and issued a…