Supreme Court ruling appears to pre-empt case barring retrospective application

The Missouri Supreme Court reversed a trial court's decision that 10 anonymous sex offenders can't be required to register as sex offenders. According to lawyers on both sides, the court's decision Tuesday is likely to apply to all sex offenders living in Missouri. "The decision as written is possibly broad enough to include the offenders who had no requirement of registration as a [result] of the Doe v. Phillips case," said Jamie K. Lansford, of Benson & Associates in Kansas City.

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Supreme Court ruling appears to pre-empt case barring retrospective application

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