Supreme Court of Delaware

In a decision by the Governor, as the Board of Pardons recommended, to unconditionally pardon defendant for second degree unlawful sexual contact, trial court's judgment mandating defendant continued registration as a sex offender is reversed as, the Board and the Governor review propensity for recidivism before recommending and granting an unconditional pardon and a pardon restores all civil rights, and as such, no basis remains for mandating continued registration as a sex offender.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/04/2009
• Published 11/04/2009

Judges

• STEELE, Chief Justice:, Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices constituting the court en banc.

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles M. Oberly, III, Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP, Wilmington, DE, for Intervenor on behalf of appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Williams, Department of Justice, Dover, DE, for appellee.