Article I, Sections 9 and 10 of the Constitution prohibit the passage of ex post facto laws. Ex post facto laws retroactively criminalize conduct that was legal at the time it was committed; ex post facto laws would...
SORNA
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In 1994, Congress passed the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act (“Wetterling Act”), which encouraged states (via conditioned federal funding) to adopt comprehensive sex offender registration laws...
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In 2006, Congress passed the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA”), which is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 2250 (“Section 2250”). Congress intended this act to serve as a comprehensive national database, tracking the address of sex...
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Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act with its accompanying regulations requiring all past sex offenders to notify the federal government of intrastate moves...