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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §1252, sub-§4-B, ķA, as amended by PL 2003, c. 711,
Pt. B, §19, is further amended to read:

 
A. As used in this section, "repeat sexual assault
offender" means a person who commits a new gross sexual
assault after having been convicted previously and sentenced
for any of the following:

 
(1) Gross sexual assault, formerly denominated as
gross sexual misconduct;

 
(2) Rape;

 
(3) Attempted murder accompanied by sexual assault;

 
(4) Murder accompanied by sexual assault; or

 
(5) Conduct substantially similar to a crime listed in
subparagraph (1), (2), (3) or (4) that is a crime under
the laws of the United States or any other state. ; or

 
(6)__A crime that was initially charged by an attorney
for the State as gross sexual assault, gross sexual
misconduct, rape, attempted murder accompanied by
sexual assault or murder accompanied by sexual assault.

 
The date of sentencing is the date of the oral pronouncement
of the sentence by the trial court, even if an appeal is
taken.

 
SUMMARY

 
This bill expands the list of prior crimes in the definition
of "repeat sexual assault offender" to include offenses that were
initially charged by the prosecuting attorney as gross sexual
assault, gross sexual misconduct, rape, attempted murder
accompanied by sexual assault or murder accompanied by sexual
assault, but the conviction was for a different crime.


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