F.R. v. St. Charles County Sheriff's Department

MICHAEL A. WOLFF, Judge.

In the first of these cases, F.R., a convicted sex offender, challenges the constitutional validity of section 566.147 1 Missouri’s “School Residency Law,” which prohibits convicted sex offenders from residing within 1,000 feet of any school or child-care facility. Because F.R. was convicted and sentenced before the “school residency law” was enacted, section 566.147, as applied to F.R., is unconstitutionally retrospective in its operation.

The circuit court entered judgment against F.R. The judgment is reversed.

In the second case, Charles Raynor, a convicted sex…