Well, from what I can gather from the article:
1. perp abuses daughter - convicted in 2002 to 5 years. Serves 27 months.
2. daughter still suffers.
3. daughter says something to piss off dad
4. dad kills perp in 2014 (12 years after conviction)
sorry, but that goes beyond “effect” and I’m not sure how much sympathy a jury would have had ...
Based on that argument, then shouldn’t sex offenders have the opportunity to be removed from the registry? I’m not advocating for that by any means, but if the father can’t act legally after a period of time deemed appropriate by a court, why is the offender registered forever? If we treat the criminal as forever guilty, doesn’t that remove the argument of “effect”?
Again, I feel that sex offenders deserve the lifetime registry; I’m only questioning the “effect” argument.