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At 18, He Had Consensual Sex With 2 Teens. Montana Wants Him to Stay a Registered Offender. A federal judge said Randall Menges should be removed from a sex-offender registry, but the Montana attorney general plans to fight to keep him on it. Randall Menges, front, with his lawyers Matthew Strugar and Elizabeth Ehret, outside the Russell Smith Federal Courthouse in Missoula, Mont., in March.Credit...Tom Bauer/The Missoulian, via Associated Press May 15, 2021, 2:08 p.m. ET In 1993, when he was 1...

A federal judge ruled that a man convicted of having consensual gay sex in 1994 should not be required to register as a sex offender.

A Montana man will not be forced to register as a sex offender in relation to a 1994 conviction under sodomy laws ruled unconstitutional in 2003 for having consensual gay sex with two 16-year-old boys, per a federal judge. In a ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen ruled that the state’s requirement that Menges remain on the sex offender registry was unconstitutional and that LGBTQ people engaging in consensual sexual activity do not pose a threat to public safety. “Mon...

Judge: Man Convicted of Sodomy Shouldnt Be on Sex Offender Registry A Montana judge ruled that Randall Menges no longer has to be on the states sex offender list. May 13 2021 4:13 PM EDT A Montana man who sued the state in order to be taken off its sex offender registry over a past sodomy arrest has won the right to be removed from the list, Boise State Public Radio reports. Randall Menges was arrested in Idaho in 1994 shortly after his 18th birthday after police say they caught him having sex...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The state of Montana has no valid reason to require a man to register as a sex offender based on his conviction for having gay sex in Idaho in 1993, a federal judge has ruled. U...

`; var circulars = He had to register as an offender for having consensual sex in Idaho. Now, he’ll reclaim his life. Ashley Nerbovig, Idaho Capital Sun Updated at Share This Adobe stock image BOISE (Idaho Capital Sun) — A federal judge on Tuesday ruled a Butte man who formerly lived in Idaho would never again have to register as a sex offender in the state of Montana. Randall Menges, 45, was convicted as an 18-year-old under Idaho’s Crime Against Nature statute after he ha...

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Flickr In 1994, Randall Menges pleaded guilty to having sex with two 16-year-old boys shortly after he turned 18. One of the boys and Menges both said in a police report that the sex was consensual. The Supreme Court in 2003 found sodomy laws to be unconstitutional, but they remained on the books in many states. Menges ultimately spent seven years in prison and is required to register as a sex offender for life in Idaho. When he eventually moved to Montana, state law there forced him to registe...

A federal court ruled that a person who has consensual same-sex relations does not pose a threat to public safety.

Listen to Part 1 of this audio verison. The ACLU of Idaho filed the suit last year on behalf of two men convicted under the “infamous crime against nature” law, or one similar to it in another state, who want to scrub it from state code entirely. Idaho’s law criminalizes anal and oral sex – historically including consensual sex – since even before the state’s founding. As of December, 41 people were forced to register as a sex offender in Idaho for committing an “infamous crime ag...