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Arizonans for Rational Sex Offense Laws
Providing education, advocacy and support for those living on the sexual offense registry and their loved ones.
condemned without cause
It's finally here!
Condemned Without Cause, is our founder's account of her twenty-year fight to bring her son Stephen home from a 75-year prison sentence. Stephen May is autistic. As a toddler he was diagnosed with ataxia, a neurological condition that affects his gait and coordination. With no prior criminal record, in 2007 a jury witnessed his disability and called it guilt, convicting him under an Arizona statute that was later ruled unconstitutional. The law has since been thrown out, but Stephen remains behind bars, as Patricia Borden continues to believe that justice will prevail. Senior U.S. District Judge Frederic Block, who presided over Stephen's federal habeas case, was so moved by the injustice that he dedicated his 2024 book, A Second Chance, to Stephen by name.
You will be tempted to believe that Stephen's case is an anomaly, but through her work, Borden has learned that our justice system is deeply flawed and, while not identical, injustices like Stephen's occur far too often.
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