11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the denial of the lower court to allow an as-applied Ex Post Facto claim in a lawsuit over Miami-Dade's housing banishment laws.
Does v. Miami-Dade County (11th Cir. 2020)
Posted: September 9, 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.
Jackson v. United States (11th Cir. 2019)
Posted: November 20, 2019
11th Circuit Court of Appeals finding no ineffective assistance of counsel where, despite advice that plea agreement would not require registration as a sex offender, counsel could not have anticipated subsequent changes in the law.
Reed v. Long (M.D. Ga. 2019)
Posted: October 30, 2019
Federal trial court issuing a preliminary injunction prohibiting Georgia sherriff from placing signs in the front of homes of people required to register as sex offenders on Halloween.
Pesci v. Budz (11th Cir. 2019)
Posted: August 21, 2019
11th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion finding that civil commitment center's ban on committee's publication and subsequent page-limitations did not offend First Amendment rights.
Holland v. Georgia (11th Cir. 2019)
Posted: August 13, 2019
Unpublished 11th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion affirming the district court dismissal of a constitutional challenge to Georgia's sex offense registry laws, alleging violations of the Ex Post Facto clause, Substantive Due Process, Equal Protection, and violations of the Eighth Amendment.
Park v. State (Ga. 2019)
Posted: April 10, 2019
Georgia Supreme Court holding that lifetime GPS monitoring of individuals designated as sexually violent predators under state law is unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.
Mann v. Georgia Dep’t of Corr. (Ga. 2007)
Posted: January 20, 2019
Georgia Supreme Court finding that residential banishment law constituted an unconstitutional taking as applied to Appellant.
State v. Davis (Ga. 2018)
Posted: December 20, 2018
Georgia Supreme Court opinion holding that pardon from Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles relieved defendant of requirement that he abide by state SORN law.
McGuire v. Strange (M.D. Ala. 2015)
Posted: November 30, 2017
Federal civil rights challenge to Alabama's SORNA alleging various theories of unconstitutionality. District court held after bench trial that state law violated ex post facto in two respects: requiring weekly, dual in person check ins of homeless people on the registry as well as requiring dual application for travel permits.