Most likely NO.
This is among the biggest concerns for anyone facing either an indecent exposure or aggravated indecent exposure charge in Michigan. For some reason, there is a common misconception that a conviction for an indecent exposure offense requires a person to register as a sex offender. This is not true.
This is good news for most people who find themselves facing one of these charges.
If you are convicted of indecent exposure, or even aggravated indecent exposure, you do NOT have to register as a sex offender unless either one of the two factors listed below are present in your case:
– Second, if at the time of the exposure, the person doing it was a “sexually delinquent person” as defined by law.
Of course, the first goal in every case is to avoid a conviction for one of these offenses. Even if you won’t have to register as a sex offender, when applying for a job or housing or filling out any other application that asks about prior convictions, you certainly don’t want to have to disclose an indecent exposure or aggravated indecent exposure conviction on your record.
Fortunately, even if the evidence in a case is rock solid, there are plenty of effective legal strategies that can keep this charge off your record. We do this all the time to negotiate a workaround so that our client can avoid the stigma of having a record for an indecent exposure offense.
Ultimately, success in a criminal case, and, particularly, in an indecent exposure case, is best measured by what does NOT happen to you. Keeping your record as clean as possible should always be a key part of that.
