Kritenbrink v. Crawford.

• Position: Classification of sex offenders - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

SEX OFFENDER

DUE PROCESS

Kritenbrink v. Crawford, 313 F.Supp.2d 1043 (D.Nev. 2004). Former and current state inmates filed [section] 1983 actions alleging that the state provided no adequate due process procedures for them to challenge their classification as sex offenders. The district court dismissed the action, finding that the current inmate had to exhaust his administrative remedies, and that the state did not violate the former inmate's procedural due process rights. The court found that the State of Nevada provided an adequate administrative procedure...