Commonwealth v. Loring

The defendant, Nicholas Loring, has been finally classified by the sex offender registry board (board) as a level two sex offender. On June 20, 2008, while he was living in Brockton, he registered, as required by G. L. c. 6, § 178F V2, with the Brockton police department. When he failed to register *1013again a few months later during the month of his birth — in September, 2008 — he was charged in the District Court with a single count of failing to register as a sex offender in violation of G. L. c. 6, § 178F 1h. At a plea hearing, after the prosecutor’s recitation of facts and a colloquy, the…