Juvenile Registration

Commonwealth v. Haines (Pa. Super. 2019)

Posted: November 1, 2019

Pennsylvania Superior Court opinion holding that requiring sex offense registration for individual who committed sexual offenses as a juvenile, but was not convicted until reaching adulthood, was unconstitutional.

Commonwealth v. Haines (Pa. Super. 2019)

State ex rel A.N. (La. 2019)

Posted: October 23, 2019

Louisiana Supreme Court opinion declining, on procedural grounds, to address argument that juvenile sex offense registration violates 8th Amendment.

State ex rel A.N. (La. 2019)

State v. N.R. (Kan. Ct. App. 2019)

Posted: September 27, 2019

Kansas Court of Appeals opinion holding that KORA does not violate prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment or retroactive punishment in the context of a person required to register who committed their offense as a juvenile.

State v. N.R. (Kan. Ct. App. 2019)

In re T.B. (Colo. App. 2019)

Posted: June 29, 2019

Colorado Court of Appeals holding that requiring lifetime registration for juveniles adjudicated of sex offenses constitutes punishment for Eighth Amendment purposes, and remanded the case for consideration of whether the Eighth Amendment is violated when the state mandates lifetime sex offense registration for juveniles.

In re T.B. (Colo. App. 2019)

In re Z.B. (S.D. 2008)

Posted: January 20, 2019

South Dakota Supreme Court holding that the registration requirement for certain juvenile sex offenders, which did not provide the same opportunity provided to adults who commit same offense to have names removed from registry if they obtained suspended imposition of sentence, violated equal protection.

In re Z.B. (S.D. 2008)

In re CK (N.J. 2018)

Posted: January 20, 2019

New Jersey Supreme Court opinion holding that subjecting juveniles to more onerous registration requirements than those imposed on adults violates substantive due procress..

In re CK (N.J. 2018)

In the Interest of T.H., (Iowa 2018)

Posted: June 26, 2018

Iowa Supreme Court holding that juvenile sex offender registration requirement, while it does constitute punishment, it is not cruel and unusual.

In the Interest of T.H., (Iowa 2018)

In re J.B. (Pa. 2014)

Posted: October 27, 2017

Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that as applied to juveniles, SORN scheme was unconstitutional in that it deprived them of due process rights.

In re J.B. (Pa. 2014)

In re CP (Ohio 2012)

Posted: October 27, 2017

Ohio Supreme Court declared unconstitutional automatic, lifetime registration for juveniles under both state and federal constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment as well as denial of due process.

In re CP (Ohio 2012)

A.W. by and through Doe v. State (8th Cir. 2017)

Posted: August 3, 2017

Eighth Circuit holding that Nebraska's SORA statutes requiring registration of anyone required to register in other states did not apply to juvenile required to register in Minnesota as a result of juvenile adjudication as a delinquent.

A.W. by and through Doe v. State (8th Cir. 2017)

Juvenile Registration

Commonwealth v. Haines (Pa. Super. 2019)

State ex rel A.N. (La. 2019)

State v. N.R. (Kan. Ct. App. 2019)

In re T.B. (Colo. App. 2019)

In re Z.B. (S.D. 2008)

In re CK (N.J. 2018)

In the Interest of T.H., (Iowa 2018)

In re J.B. (Pa. 2014)

In re CP (Ohio 2012)

A.W. by and through Doe v. State (8th Cir. 2017)

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