4th Circuit Court of Appeals holding that venue in a federal failure to register case is proper in the district where the defendant departed from.
United States v. Spivey (4th Cir. 2020)
Posted: May 1, 2020
Rogers v. State (Md. 2020)
Posted: April 2, 2020
Maryland Court of Appeals opinion holding that facts which require registration as a sex offender, in light of the punitive nature of registration, must be established beyond a reasonable doubt in the adjudicatory phase of a criminal proceeding.
United States v. Wass (4th Cir. 2020)
Posted: March 25, 2020
4th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion reversing dismissal of federal indictment for failure to register, finding that non-delegation principles were not violated, and that federal SORNA was not puntive.
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.
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.
United State v. Helton (4th Cir. 2019)
Posted: December 9, 2019
4th Circuit Court of Appeals holding that a violation of South Carolina's voyeurism statute constitutes a "sex offense" for the purposes of federal SORNA.
Fazili v. Commonwealth (Va. Ct. App. 2019)
Posted: December 9, 2019
Virginia Court of Appeals reversing trial court's imposition of general internet usage restriction as a condition of probation without articulating why such a condition would be narrowly tailored.
State v. Hoyle (W.Va. 2019)
Posted: November 27, 2019
West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals opinion finding that state registration scheme was not vague, that a 10-25 year sentence for failing to provide a correct phone number pursuant to that scheme was not disproportionate, but that a recidivist life sentence enhancement did violate the 8th Amendment.
State v. Grady (N.C. 2019)
Posted: August 16, 2019
North Carolina Supreme Court opinion holding that imposition of mandatory, lifetime GPS monitoring imposed on individuals who North Carolina classified as recidivist offenders and who were no longer under state criminal supervision was a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Bailey v. Commonwealth (Va. Ct. App. 2019)
Posted: August 1, 2019
Virginia Court of Appeals affirming conviction and upholding state law that required registration of internet identifiers.