No. 19-5842

William Sim Spencer v. Michigan

Lower Court: Michigan
Docketed: 2019-09-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: actus-reus counsel-effectiveness due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrebuttable-presumption sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2019-10-11
Question Presented (from Petition)

WHERE IT CAN BE SHOWN THATTHE ORDER TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER IS NOT LIMITED
IN SCOPE TO STAND ON A VALID GUILTY PLEA SUPPORTED BY THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF
COUNSEL, DOES THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION ACT VIOLATE A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT'S
SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO COUNSEL AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO DUE
PROCESS BY CREATING AN IRREBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION, AT NEW CRIMINAL TRIALS, THAT
THE ORDER TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER IS LIMITED IN SCOPE TO STAND ON A VALID
GUILTY PLEA THAT IS SUPPORTED BY THE EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL?

DOES JUSTICE REQUIRE A DETERMINATION THAT MICHIGAN'S PRE-2018 STATUTE OF
LIMITATIONS BARS RETRIAL OF THIS CASE WHERE THE RECORD MAKES CLEAR THAT THE
ACTUS REUS ELEMENT OF A CRIME WAS NOT ACCUSED BY SPECIFIC FACTS AND WAS NOT
PROVEN BY SPECIFIC FACTS?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Where it can be shown that the order to register as a sex offender is not limited in scope to stand on a valid guilty plea supported by the effective assistance of counsel, does the sex offender registration act violate a criminal defendant's sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel, fourteenth-amendment-right-to-due-process

Docket Entries

2019-10-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/11/2019.
2019-09-19
Waiver of right of respondent Michigan to respond filed.
2019-08-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 7, 2019)

Attorneys

Michigan
Thomas Richard GrdenOakland Co. Prosecutor's Off., Respondent
William Sim Spencer
William Sim Spencer — Petitioner