Sex Offender Registration/Therapy Can’t Be Condition Parole on TX Inmates Convicted of Non-Sexual Offense Without Finding They’re Threat to Society Because Lack of Sexual Control; Ruling Not Disturbed

Coleman v. Dretke, 395 F.3d 216 (5th Cir. 2004), cert. denied, 126 S. Ct. 427 (2005)

Texas sometimes requires sex offender registration and sex offender therapy as a condition of release on parole from incarceration.  While SVP commitment requires a hearing and is generally limited to offenders convicted of a specified sexual offense, these parole conditions could be imposed without a hearing and regardless of whether the inmate had been convicted of a sexual offense...

Found in DMHL Volume 25 Issue 1