If Trump is found guilty of rape will he have to register as a sex offender?

This is not a criminal trial.

@canidmajor Ok thanks.

The word is “precedent”. I don’t know.

But it seems to me that your core legal question was whether a national leader convicted of a sex crime would be listed as a sex offender in a country with such a system. And the answer to that seems clearly to be yes, unless some theoretical country had a specific exception for it.

Or, in a dictatorship, but in that case, the trial wouldn’t happen. Or the leader would be found innocent. Or the leader would let themself be found guilty, and then enjoy flexing their power on anyone who said or tried to do anything about it. Etc.

I guess he would, if this was a criminal trial. But honestly, would it really be necessary? If you saw Trump coming down the road and you were a woman, wouldn’t you think, I’m staying away from that guy?

If it were a criminal trial, yes.

I don’t know what exactly the requirements are for sex offender registries, but they were designed to track those who committed sexual abuse of children or highly violent sexual crimes. I haven’t heard that Donald Trump did either of those things.

^^ If he’s found guilty in a criminal court, yes, he will have to register as a sex offender. Btw, rape is a crime of violence, not sex.

In every state in the nation, a person convicted of forcible rape is required to register as a sex offender.

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/criminal-defense/what-crimes-require-sex-offender-registration/

Thanks @smudges!

BTW – it wasn’t my terminology. “Highly violent” was the language in the federal law that established the sex offender registry.

^^ I hear ya. :)

Since this was a civil case, no, he won’t have to, but it’s not like he’s some mysterious face in the crowd.