Civil Rights
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District court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss his indictment for failing to register as a sex offender in violation of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) is affirmed where: 1) nothing in SORNA or its guidelines indicates that a jurisdiction's failure to comply with SORNA relieves offenders of the obligation to register in that jurisdiction; 2) the Ex Post Facto Clause has no application to defendant's situation; 3) defendant had notice of his registration obligations; 4) SORNA is a proper regulation of commerce under the Lopez categories; 5) defendant, as a private part, lacks standing to raise a Tenth Amendment challenge to SORNA; 6) any impediment on defendant's travel does not reach the Constitutional threshold of his right to travel interstate; and 7) defendant lacks standing to challenge the rule or the manner in which it was promulgated.
Read US v. Shenandoah, No. 09-1205
Appellate Information
On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
Opinion Filed February 9, 2010
Judges
Before: McKee, Chagares, and Nygaard, Circuit Judges
Opinion by Circuit Judge Nygaard
Counsel:
For Appellant: Frederick W. Ulrich, Thomas A. Thornton, Office of the Federal Public Defender
For Appellee: Martin C. Carlson, Theodore B. Smith, III, Office of the US Attorney
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