Court Opinion

ID: 9678396
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 06:18:40.390308+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:03.930852
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SCHRODER, Justice,
dissenting.
When the Appellant’s probation officer, the trial judge and this Court, individuals I’d like to think are of common intelligence, have to struggle (as we clearly have) with the question of whether the statute requires a homeless registrant to register his change of residence address, then the statute is necessarily void for vagueness as to this defendant. I have no problem with requiring the registration of a sex offender. However, the language of KRS 17.510(10)(a) as it existed in 2005 was simply not definite enough for an ordinary person to understand that a registrant who becomes homeless must register his change of residence address when, by the very definition of “homeless”, the registrant has no residence or address.
SCOTT, J., joins.