In a ruling that could affect thousands of parolees, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held May 20 that the state’s procedures for determining whether to impose sex-offender conditions on a parolee who has not been convicted of a sex crime do not pass constitutional muster.
“This court has made clear that sex offender conditions may only be imposed on individuals not convicted of a sex offense after the individual has received due process,” Judge W. Eugene Davis wrote in the majority opinion in Meza v. Livingston, et al.
