State v. Brooks
Annotate this CaseDefendant pled guilty to felony arson for setting fire to a car and two dumpsters. After a sentencing hearing, the district court sentenced Defendant to a four-year suspended DOC commitment and required him to pay $1600 in restitution. It further imposed recommended probationary conditions, including that Defendant register as a violent offender and complete anger management classes and chemical dependency and mental health evaluations. Defendant challenged the sentencing condition requiring him to register as a violent offender. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the district court's sentencing condition requiring that Defendant register as a violent offender did not violate his constitutional right to privacy, as whatever limited expectation of privacy Defendant had as a violent offender in his whereabouts and residential information, the State's compelling interest in requiring that he register justified the enactment of the statute requiring registration.
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