TALLAHASSEE — A battle about the constitutionality of a state requirement that convicted sexual predators have the words “SEXUAL PREDATOR” on their driver’s licenses has gone to the Florida Supreme Court.

Attorneys for Michael Crist, who was accused in 2019 of trying to cover up the sexual-predator designation on his license, filed a notice last week that is a first step in asking the Supreme Court to review an Aug. 15 ruling by the 5th District Court of Appeal that upheld the requirement .

Crist’s attorneys contended at the appeals court that requiring the designation violated First Amendment rights. As is common, the newly filed notice does not detail arguments they will make at the Supreme Court.

Crist, now 50, was released from prison in 2008 after serving a sentence for a convict

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