Sex Offender Gets Retrial After Facebook Blast Over Font Bias

A convicted sex offender in Massachusetts received a second hearing after the hearing officer who decided his case was found to be biased. The officer had posted to Facebook numerous times about the “perv.”

In one example, the officer, Tyson Lynch, mocked the offender for using the Arial typeface, saying he “can't trust someone who drafts a letter in arial font!” and “I might be biased. I think arial is inappropriate for most things.”

He also called the man a “perv” on Facebook and wrote that he “thinks attorneys should know that arial font is not appropriate for motions.”

The man Lynch wrote about was challenging the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board’s decision that he needed to register as a Level 3 sex offender. Lynch oversaw the man’s administrative hearing and ruled against him. Read more...