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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 18, Randall Menges had consensual sex with two other teenage boys at a camp in Idaho. Mr. Menges was ...

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. “Montana has no rational basis for forcing Menges to register as a sexual offender on the basis of a 199...

Judge: Man Convicted of Sodomy Shouldn't Be on Sex Offender Registry A Montana judge ruled that Randall Menges no longer has to be on the state's 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 with two 16-year-old boys. Menges and one of the boys at the time said in the original police re...

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...