Legal Opinion
Corbin v. Chitwood
District Court, D. Maine
Decided May 17, 2001No. CIV. 01-93-P-HPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER ON MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
HORNBY, Chief Judge.
This case pits privacy and other individual rights against a community’s interest in knowing that a convicted sexual offender against children is in its midst. I conclude that the police notification to the community of the sexual offender’s presence violated no constitutional rights.
I. Facts
The plaintiff, John Davies Corbin, is a convicted sex offender now living in Maine. Compl. ¶ 6. In 1986, he pleaded guilty in California to two counts of nonviolent lewd and lascivious acts with minors under the age…
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