Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center

SORN

Interest of C.G. (Wis. 2022)

Posted: August 16, 2022
Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects transgender woman's challenge to Wisconsin registry based on registry provision preventing registrants from legally changing their names, concluding that (1) under well established precedent, placement on the registry is not a “punishment” under the Eighth Amendment and, even if it was, registration is neither cruel not unusual, and (2) petitioner’s right to free speech does not encompass the power to compel the State to facilitate a change of her legal name.

Interest of C.G. (Wis. 2022)

Lindsey v. Swearingen (N.D. Fla. 2022)

Posted: March 5, 2022
District Court holding rejecting Full Faith and Credit Clause and Equal Protection arguments and holding, first, that Florida may require a new resident to register as a "sex offender" based on a crime committed in a state where the individual lived previously, even though a court in that state terminated that state's registration requirement and, second, that Florida is not required to purge or deny public access to prior registration records where an individual has left the state.

Lindsey v. Swearingen (N.D. Fla. 2022)

Atryzek v. State of Rhode Island (R.I. 2022)

Posted: March 5, 2022
Rhode Island Supreme Court opinion in postconviction registry challenge affirming Superior Court's judgment in part and quashed the judgment in part, concluding that Defendant is no longer required to register, that dates of alleged offenses, not dates of conviction, controlled whether a registration duty was violated, and that the state's argument that earlier convictions gave rise to new independent duty to register was outside the scope of remand.

Atryzek v. State of Rhode Island (R.I. 2022)

People v. Edwards (N.Y. App. Div. 2021)

Posted: January 6, 2022
New York Appellate Division Fourth Department decision reversing a lower court's determination of risk level under SORA finding that the lower court erred in concluding that defendant failed to identify and establish the existence of a mitigating factor not taken into account by the guidelines, where defendant established by a preponderance of the evidence that he had not reoffended for seven years between release from prison and the SORA hearing, despite being unsupervised.

People v. Edwards (N.Y. App. Div. 2021)

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Jurisdiction

Constitutional Issues

Substantive Issues

Actual Innocence Administrative exhaustion Administrative Procedures Act AEDPA Antisocial Personality Disorder Apprendi / Alleyne As-Applied AWA Burden of Proof Churches Civil Commitment Collateral Estoppel Conditions of Confinement Conditions of Release Daubert Deregistration Evidentiary Standards Expungement Extraterritorial Registration Failure to Register Familial Relationships GPS Halloween Hearsay Heck bar Homelessness Housing HUD Immigration Ineffective Assistance International Travel Internet Identifiers Internet Restrictions Jury Instructions Juvenile Registration Mental disorder Non-Sexual Offense Notification Out-of-state Offense Paraphilia Diagnosis Pardon Parole Personality Disorder Plea Agreement Plethysmograph PLRA Polygraphs Preemption Presence Restrictions Procedural Default PROTECT Act Punishment Qualified Immunity Recidivism Reclassification Res Judicata Residential Banishment Retroactive Application (Non-EPF) Revocation of Supervision Risk School Property Second / Subsequent Offense Sentencing Sexual Predator designation Sign Posting Special Needs Supervised Release SVP Tiering / Classification Tolling Transitional Release Travel Travel Restrictions Treatment Programs Voting Rights