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)
Posted: July 20, 2020
Bakor v. Barr (8th Cir. 2020)
Posted: May 15, 2020
8th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion finding that criminal sexual conduct and failure to register as a sex offender are both crimes involving moral turpitude for immigration removal purposes.
United States v. Spivey (4th Cir. 2020)
Posted: May 1, 2020
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.
McClain v. State (Tex. Ct. App. 2020)
Posted: March 1, 2020
Texas Court of Appeals opinion reversing trial court's order revoking the supervision of Appellant and imposing a life sentence of imprisonment for failing to register, where the state failed to establish that Appellant knew he had a duty to register in his circumstances and where police interfered with his attempts to comply with the law.
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.
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. 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.
Demus v. State (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2019)
Posted: October 14, 2019
Florida District Court of Appeal reversing conviction for failure to register as a sex offender on the grounds that state prosecutors never established elements of the offense.
United States v. Walker (7th Cir. 2019)
Posted: July 24, 2019
7th Circuit Court of Appeals Opinion reversing the denial of a motion to dismiss a failure to register indictment as Appellant's requirement to register had already expired under federal law.
Gonzalez v. Duncan (9th Cir. 2008)
Posted: June 12, 2019
9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversing the denial of an Eighth Amendment challenge to a "third strike" California sentence for failing to register as a sex offender.