Congratulation to Gabriel Walsh on getting another case dismissed on the day of trial.

Mr. Walsh’s client was accused of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.  His client is required to report his address to the county sheriff every time he moves residences and annually within ten days of his birthday.  The wrinkle is that Mr. Walsh’s client was homeless.  The prosecutor’s perspective was that a state of homelessness (thus not having an address) isn’t relevant to the duty to report an address.  Since the prosecutor was not amenable to a conversation on the topic before trial, Mr. Walsh went to trial. 

 The morning of trial, the prosecutor was open to discussing the case since it was time for him to prove the case to a jury.  Upon hearing Mr. Walsh’s argument that being homeless means that a person does not have an address, the prosecutor agreed to dismiss the case.