KS: Man who killed Overland Park woman not a sex offender
The Kansas Supreme Court says a man who beat an Overland Park woman and then left her to die does not have to register as a sex offender.
Korrey Raine White Rinke was sentenced in December 2019 to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 25 years for the 2016 death of Julianna Pappas.
He was also ordered to register as a sex offender. On Friday, the state Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling and said Rinke did not have to register as a sex offender. The court said prosecutors did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Rinke kidnapped and killed Pappas for sexual gratification.
[FAC NOTE: At least as a murderer he will have the chance to get his life back if he is paroled.}
So the take away is, you can have sex with someone and they are STILL alive but you have to register for life. But if all you want is to kill them, you have a chance of restoration? Not throwing anyone under the bus here but the math, the science, the nothing, adds up as far as those on the registry are concerned.
What are these judges drinking before making rulings? It must be silly soda or something.
BTW I am not in any way saying the guy should register as a sex offender. In fact, just odd with the charges they presented that was even an option. But there again, they (Whoever they are) want EVERYONE on some sort of registry eventually.
I agree, CherokeeJack.
Murderers, drug dealers, and habitual thieves can take heart in knowing that their lives can move on and at least they’re not one of those “sex offenders.”
Still shocks, angers, and has me in disbelief that all those registry expanding crime bills named for victims didn’t give a damn about their deaths, just that a sex offense was committed against them.
Cherokee, I don’t think the problem is so much with judges as with legislators. They write idiotic, vindictive and ambiguous statutes for political gain, and judges are left scratching their heads. Granted, elected judges also have political motives and will most often seek the safest route when a case even hints at a sex offense. However, the lunacy starts in legislatures.
Veritas.
ED C
I do not remember how long most judges stay in officers before having to be re-elected etc. However, supreme court judges stay for life, or until they die, retire or get in some trouble that could oust them.
I kept going back on appeals and lawyer told me to stop. Once a judge he knew would listen rotated in, he called and said “Let’s do this”. Against the chaulk board scratching the prosecutor was doing, the judge approved my 6 years early release from probation. I cried so hard me Mum thought I had lost. (She had no clue what was going on) I had to tell her “Mom, it is ok, I won”.
On a side note, that judge that released me, is now a Florida Supreme court judge.
mbgodofwar
Just funny that whenever we, who now live back in society, are a victim of a crime, law enforcement does nothing to try and get us justice. My last house I was a victim of registry vigilante crime so many times I stopped calling the police.
30% of the time they came out and wrote a report and never heard from the again. The other 70% I was told to fill out an incident report online. (Which once it is filled out, gets printed out and shredded while the staff laughs——Just my thoughts on that part)
I cannot count how many times I have gotten pulled over and been really nice to the officer, deputy or trooper, letting them know I use to be in law enforcement and that I “Have their backs”.
Once they get to the patrol car and run my license, they come back and say “I see you are a registered sex offender, why didn’t you tell me that?” It goes down hill from there.
Only government could come up with something so stupid: kill a woman=no registration at all, but look at a picture on the internet=lifetime punishment.
To: Give me Liberty
If I ever get off the registry, this will be the title of my new book.
“Only in America-Stupidity of a Nation”
By Cherokee Jack
Parents who run to lawmakers when a horrible crime happens to their children wanting something, anything to become law passed quickly. Laws based on emotions should never be implemented because the reality isn’t anywhere the hysteria. Tired of negligent parents help pass these laws, when they need to take responsibility for their inactions regarding their children. Just my two cents
To: Brandon
That reminds me of something that happened to me. A few years back I was driving down a dark 4 lane road with no street lights and a center medium made of asphalt for turn lanes. (So basically a 5 lane road)
A guy had a huge dog off of its leash and as I was doing the speed limit of 45 mph, the dog ran right into my path and was killed instantly. Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE dogs. I stopped and the owner came over wanting to fight me. A deputy just happen to drive by and stopped.
I got tested for DUI and passed. I explained to the deputy that I was going the speed limit of 45 (Dog owner said I was doing 90 LOL). I stated the dog was not on a leash and darted into traffic in the dark of the night and there was nothing I could. Since it was not a human and I was not drunk, and I stopped, and there were no other witnesses, I was allowed to leave. But not before the owner of the dog put a huge dent in my hood with his fist.
So now I had a dent in my hood in addition to a busted grill and leaking radiator. I felt bad for the dog BUT, I said all this to make a point. At NO time, like you stated above, did HE take a single ounce of the responsibility. Just like the people who leave their kids in the back seat of a car in the hot summer and find them dead later. And they blame the car manufacturer for not having a safety feature.
I and many others took full responsibility for My actions and look what it got me. A life time of registration, ex post facto-ed to the max.
If he did at least in KS there are no living restrictions and you can file to get off the registry after 5 years 1 of only 3 states you can do it that in