Judge Sides with Minnesota Sex Offenders
A class-action lawsuit representing more than 700 civilly committed sex offenders, many from Moose Lake, Minnesota, will go to trial in a St. Paul courtroom beginning Monday, February 9, 2015, after a federal judge denied the state of Minnesota and its defendants summary judgment.
In a
43-page ruling filed Monday, February 2, 2015, U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank scolded the state’s legislative and executive branches for having “let politics, rather than the rule of law and the rights of "all" of their citizens, guide their decisions.” Donovan specifically noted that, in a situation such as this, the federal court may have to step in to protect the rights of the Plaintiffs.
“The interests of justice require that substantial changes be made to Minnesota’s sex offender civil commitment scheme,” Frank wrote.
Patty Wetterling herself has asked people to take a second look to see whether laws like the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994, are doing more harm than good and should be curbed.
Meanwhile, former federal magistrate
Judge Arthur Boylan is now
serving as mediator in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings initiated on January 30, 2015, by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN. The Archdiocese, which has assets totaling more than $45 million, including about $11 million in real estate, filed bankruptcy in an effort to cope with the economic consequences of its now-legendary epidemic of pederasty in the Catholic priesthood.
As a federal magistrate, Judge Boylan often served as an alternative dispute resolution neutral. For example, Boylan mediated the 2011 National Football League (NFL) lockout dispute and worked on negotiations for 26 sessions over more than 100 days. The NFL Players Association and the NFL Commissioner reached a deal to end the NFL lockout on August 4, 2011, having cancelled only one preseason game, and signed a ten-year collective bargaining agreement. Boylan was appointed a federal magistrate judge on November 1, 1996, and
retired from the federal court on January 8, 2014, to return to the private sector. Boylan, the son of Irish immigrant parents who came to the United States in the late 1920s,
grew up on the West Side of Chicago. He attended St. Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota, and graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1976.
Prior to his federal appointment, Boylan was appointed to the Minnesota State Court for the 8th Judicial District in 1986, where he served as a district court judge in Willmar, Minnesota. Boylan presided over serial pederast prosecutions in Kandiyohi county following the conclusion of the Jacob Wetterling Task Force investigation in January 1990.
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