Legal Opinion
Pelland v. Rhode Island
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided May 7, 2004No. C.A. 01-454SPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
SMITH, District Judge.
The right to travel from state to state, though not explicitly guaranteed by the United States Constitution, has long been recognized as a liberty interest protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. In this case, a convicted sex offender on probation seeks greater freedom of movement than the State of Rhode Island is willing to allow him. The question for this Court is whether Rhode Island’s enforcement of a policy that curtails the right of sex offender probationers to travel interstate violates the Due Process or Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth…
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