February 2020

United States v. Arbaugh (4th Cir. 2020)

Posted: February 25, 2020

4th Circuirt Court of Appeals opinion affirming in part a federal sentence for engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in a foreign country, but reversing in part on the grounds that the district court failed to articulate reasons supporting computer-related conditions of supervised release.

United States v. Arbaugh (4th Cir. 2020)

Prynne v. Settle (4th Cir. 2021)

Posted: February 25, 2020

4th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion reversing a trial court dismissing Ex Post Facto claims, holding that plaintiff adequately pled Ex Post Facto violations, though affirming the dismissal of other constitutional claims.

Prynne v. Settle (4th Cir. 2021)

United States v. Clark (8th Cir. 2020)

Posted: February 16, 2020

8th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion holding that trial court's instructions on 'knowing' with respect to a federal failure to register offense were not in error and did not require that the jury disregard Appellant's mistake-of-fact defense.

United States v. Clark (8th Cir. 2020)

United States v. Belcher (11th Cir. 2020)

Posted: February 15, 2020

11th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion affirming the district court's imposition of various computer-related restrictions of supervised release on an individual who was not on supervision for a sex offense, but had a past conviction for a sex offense.

United States v. Belcher (11th Cir. 2020)

John Doe et al. v. Richard Snyder (E.D. Mich. 2021)

Posted: February 14, 2020

Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granting permanent injunction, prohibiting in total the enforcement of any of Michigan's sex offense registration scheme to anyone who had committed their offenses prior to 2011, as well as prohibiting the enforcement of numerous provisions to any persons required to register.

John Doe et al. v. Richard Snyder (E.D. Mich. 2021)

Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Cal. Ct. App. 3rd 2020)

Posted: February 14, 2020

California Court of Appeal decision finding that California state regulations excluding those convicted of non-violent sex offenses from parole eligibility contradicted plain text of a ballot initiatve, and thus was unlawful.

Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Cal. Ct. App. 3rd 2020)

United States v. Pilcher (2nd Cir. 2020)

Posted: February 8, 2020

2nd Circuit Opinion finding that the denial of the request of a habeas corpus litigant to proceed under a pseudonym is appealable under the collateral order doctrine, but that the trial court properly denied Appellant's request.

United States v. Pilcher (2nd Cir. 2020)

State v. Reynolds (Wash. Ct. App. 2020)

Posted: February 5, 2020

Washington Court of Appeals vacating conviction for failure to register, where registration depended on foreign state law and thus violated principles of nondelegation.

State v. Reynolds (Wash. Ct. App. 2020)

People v. Kochevar (Ill. Ct. App. 2020)

Posted: February 4, 2020

Illinois Court of Appeals vacating a prior judgment holding that Illinois' sex offense registration violated federal and state constitutional principles, in light of Illinois Supreme Court precedent that it lacked jurisdiction to consider constitutional challenges to registration on direct appeal.

People v. Kochevar (Ill. Ct. App. 2020)

In re Jones (Kan. Ct. App. 2020)

Posted: February 1, 2020

Kansas Court of Appeals opinion reversing the dismissal of an SVP petition where expert evaluators disagreed as to whether the Appellee met the statutory criteria for commitment.

In re Jones (Kan. Ct. App. 2020)

United States v. Arbaugh (4th Cir. 2020)

Prynne v. Settle (4th Cir. 2021)

United States v. Clark (8th Cir. 2020)

United States v. Belcher (11th Cir. 2020)

John Doe et al. v. Richard Snyder (E.D. Mich. 2021)

Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Cal. Ct. App. 3rd 2020)

United States v. Pilcher (2nd Cir. 2020)

State v. Reynolds (Wash. Ct. App. 2020)

People v. Kochevar (Ill. Ct. App. 2020)

In re Jones (Kan. Ct. App. 2020)

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