A trial judge’s attempt to ensure registration of a deported child molester has been brusquely reversed by a Brooklyn appellate panel, which said registering the defendant as a sex offender without a hearing or notice violated “the constitutional principles of due process and cannot be sustained in law and reason.”
In a unanimous opinion, the Appellate Division, Second Department, left no question that individuals convicted of sex crimes are entitled to a hearing before their names are included in the state sex offender registry, and that getting deported does not constitute a de facto waiver of that hearing.
