{"id":1655,"date":"2024-07-03T22:19:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T22:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/nj-high-court-provides-distinction-in-megans-law-registration-requirements\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T22:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T22:19:25","slug":"nj-high-court-provides-distinction-in-megans-law-registration-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/nj-high-court-provides-distinction-in-megans-law-registration-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ High Court Provides Distinction in Megan&#8217;s Law Registration Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>In a pair of decisions issued Monday, the New Jersey Supreme Court clarified how Megan\u2019s Law applies to juvenile offenders, finding that the prong requiring a defendant to remain offense-free for 15 years before applying to terminate their obligation to register does not apply to those adjudicated delinquent in family court.<\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously held, in <i>IMO Registrant R.H.; IMO Registrant T.L.<\/i>, that the plain language of prong (f) of Megan\u2019s Law requires a defendant to remain offense-free for 15 years. Chief Justice Stuart Rabner noted, in his written opinion for the court, that prong (f) applies to juveniles who are prosecuted as adults and convicted of a listed sex offense or released from a correctional facility. It does not apply to those adjudicated guilty in family court, <a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/399\/114958\/IMO-Registrant-R.H..pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a pair of decisions issued Monday, the New Jersey Supreme Court clarified how Megan\u2019s Law applies to juvenile offenders, finding that the prong requiring a defendant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[143,2330,327,153,2331,2332,2333],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-court","tag-distinction","tag-high","tag-law","tag-megans","tag-registration","tag-requirements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}