Commonwealth v. Ramadan

STEINBERG, J,

On May 21,2004, the defendant, Missad Ramadan, who was employed as an ice cream truck vendor, was arrested and charged with failure to register, for 10 years, as required of certain *523offenders,1 a felony of the third degree. It is alleged that his adjudication as a juvenile in New Jersey for sexual assault in 1996 and subsequent placement on probation required him to register as a sexual offender in Pennsylvania under what is commonly described as Megan’s Law. 42 Pa.C.S. §§9791-9799.

The registration requirement for out-of-state offenders at the time of the defendant’s arrest was…