New Jersey district court opinion dismissing a constitutional challenge to New Jersey's sex offense registration scheme in the context of plaintiffs who had been adjudicated as juveniles.
B.K. v. Grewal (D.N.J. 2020)
Posted: September 23, 2020
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.
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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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.