WATERLOO (AP) -- A registered sex offender has been convicted of beating up a neighbor in a small-town apartment complex in upstate New York for posting fliers warning about his criminal past.
William Meacham, his sister Stephanie and family friend Marvin Snyder were found guilty Thursday of gang assault on 35-year-old Adrian Porter, who was left with brain trauma, a broken nose and facial fractures.
They could get up to 25 years in prison at sentencing Dec. 21.
Authorities say Porter was confronted in the complex's parking lot in Seneca Falls in September 2008 after he posted the fliers showing state sex-offender registry photographs of Meacham.
The 30-year-old Meacham served nearly four years for raping a 15-year-old girl in the Binghamton area.
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