The development, confirmed by the Eaton County Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday, is the result of a recent Michigan Supreme Court decision regarding the state's registry laws.Nassar is one of more than 20,000 individuals whose names were recently purged from the Michigan State Police database.Larry Nassar stands as Judge Janice Cunningham sentences him for three counts of criminal sexual assault in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich., on Feb.
5, 2018.Nassar has been accused of sexually assaulting more than 150 girls and young women while serving as a physician for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University.
Cunningham sentenced him to 40 to 125 years in prison.(Getty Images)On September 9, the state Supreme Court ruled that 2021 amendments to Michigan's Sex Offender Registration Act cannot be applied retroactively to older crimes.As a direct result of this ruling, state police were forced to remove individuals whose criminal conduct took place prior to July 1, 2011.While Nassar was not publicly exposed, arrested or convicted until years later, his crimes technically occurred before the 2011 cutoff date.
Therefore, he is no longer legally required to be listed on the public registry.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE.DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!The Eaton County Prosecutor’s Office strongly criticized the removal.
Eaton County Prosecutor Doug Lloyd pointed out that while Nassar’s convictions came after the deadline, the conduct itself allowed for the loophole.Larry Nassar appears in court to listen to victim impact statements prior to sentencing after being accused of molesting about 100 girls while he was a physician for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University on Jan.16, 2018, in Lansing, Mich.
Nassar pleaded guilty in Ingham County to sexually assaulting seven girls.Nassar is currently serving a 60-year sentence in federal prison for possession of child pornography.
(Getty Images)The prosecutor’s office ...