Whether California's sex offender registration mandates under Calif. Penal Code section 290 place sufficiently significant burdens on a registrant's liberty so as to allow a federal habeas corpus petitioner standing to file a timely federal habeas petition under 22 U.S.C. 2254; that is, whether the registration burdens "significantly restrain petitioner's liberty to do those things which in this country free men are entitled to do[.]" Jones v. Cunningham, 371 U.S. 236, 243 (1963).

Whether California's sex offender registration mandates place sufficiently significant burdens on a registrant's liberty to allow a federal habeas corpus petition