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Recent Cases

  • McDeid v. Johnston (Minn. 2023)

  • Doe v. Department of Justice (C.D. Cal. 2023)

  • In re T.O. (Cal. Ct. App. 2022)

  • People v. Kastman (Ill. 2022)

  • State v. McMahon (La. Ct. App. 2022)

  • Commonwealth v. Roderick (Mass. 2022)

  • Lake Naomi Club, Inc. v. Rosado (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2022)

  • State v. Larson (Minn. 2022)

  • Doe as Next Friend of Doe #6 v. Swearingen (11th Cir. 2022)

  • McGuire v. Marshall (11th Cir. 2022)

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Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center

875 Summit Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55105

Professor Eric Janus, Director

eric.janus @mitchellhamline.edu

Madeline Ranum, Policy Fellow

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madeline.ranum @mitchellhamline.edu

Thomas v. Blocker (CA3 2020, M.D. Pa. 2021)

Posted: April 14, 2021
Federal district court, following remand from court of appeals, granting defendants' motion for summary judgment on claims that Pennsylvania's SORNA violated Due Process & Ex Post Facto constitutional provisions, in addition to retaliation and defamation claims.

Thomas v. Blocker (CA3 2020, M.D. Pa. 2021)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 3rd Cir., AWA, Due Process, Ex Post Facto, Pennsylvania

United States v. Lusby (9th Cir. 2020)

Posted: August 31, 2020
9th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion reversing the dismissal of a federal failure to register indictment where the government could not show that the interstate travel was not legally compelled.

United States v. Lusby (9th Cir. 2020)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 9th Cir., AWA, Double Jeopardy, Failure to Register, Nevada

Willman v. United States Attorney General (6th Cir. 2020)

Posted: August 27, 2020
Federal district court in the Eastern District of Michigan dismissing broad constitutional challenge to federal SORNA.

Willman v. United States Attorney General (6th Cir. 2020)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 4th Amendment, 6th Cir., 8th Amendment, AWA, Ex Post Facto, Michigan, Overbreadth, Privileges and Immunities, Void-for-Vagueness

United States v. Montgomery (5th Cir. 2020)

Posted: July 20, 2020
5th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion vacating a federal conviction for failure to register, where the Appellant was no longer required to comply with federal SORNA.

United States v. Montgomery (5th Cir. 2020)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 5th Cir., AWA, Failure to Register, Texas

Selig v. Russell (Mo. Ct. App. 2020)

Posted: April 22, 2020
Missouri Court of Appeals opinion finding that offenses requiring registration under federal law would also require registration under state law, even if they are specifically exempted in the state's registration statute.

Selig v. Russell (Mo. Ct. App. 2020)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 8th Cir., AWA, Deregistration, Missouri

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. Wass (4th Cir. 2020)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 4th Cir., AWA, Ex Post Facto, Nondelegation, North Carolina

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)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 8th Cir., AWA, Failure to Register

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.

United State v. Helton (4th Cir. 2019)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 4th Cir., AWA, South Carolina

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.

Jackson v. United States (11th Cir. 2019)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 11th Cir., AWA, Georgia, Ineffective Assistance

United States v. Doby (D. Kan. 2019)

Posted: November 9, 2019
Federal District Court for the District of Kansas rejecting defendant's pre-trial argument that federal SORNA constitutes compelled speech in the context of a failure to register indictment.

United States v. Doby (D. Kan. 2019)

Category: SORN Cases Tag: 10th Cir., 1st Amendment, AWA, Compelled Speech, Kansas

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