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Nebraska high court upholds sex offender ruling

LINCOLN (AP) — A Nebraska man must register as a sex offender despite never being convicted of a sex crime, the Nebraska Supreme Court said Friday in upholding a lower court’s ruling.

The state’s high court asked the Buffalo County District Court in January 2012 to review all evidence from a hearing to decide whether 33-year-old Chad Norman’s crime involved sexual contact with his ex-girlfriend’s 11-year-old son.

The high court said the district court found clear and convincing evidence that Norman’s crime involved sexual contact with the boy. With it, the high court upheld the ruling that Nor...

 

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