sex-offender-registration
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6702 | Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process nichols-precedent plain-error sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Did the lower courts commit plain error requiring summary reversal by reinterpreting the elements of 18 U.S.C. § 2250, (construed by the unanimous Sup… |
| 25A642 | Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | constitutional-challenge criminal-punishment ex-post-facto lifetime-reporting sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25-79 | Ton Ton Aquino v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Pending | appellate-waiver circuit-split sentencing-conditions sex-offender-registration supervised-release unlawful-sentencing | Whether it is unlawful for a court to impose sex offender registration as a condition of supervised release for a non-qualifying offense, and to enfor… | |
| 24-6797 | Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-analysis circumstance-specific-analysis criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sex-offender-registration SORNA | In Descamps v. United States, 570 U.S. 254 (2013), this Court held that when a federal sentencing statute (the Armed Career Criminal Act) referred to … |
| 24-912 | Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida | Florida | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto removal-provision sex-offender-registration state-courts | Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which the state courts are split: is it a violation of constitutional ex post facto princi… |
| 24-6235 | Joseph Furey Lusk v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights jury-trial predicate-offense proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sex-offender-registration | Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant committed a felony off ense involving a n … |
| 24-5336 | Darryl Watts v. New York | New York | 2024-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-proceeding competency constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest sex-offender-registration | Because a New York Sex Offender Registration Act proceeding implicates a fundamental liberty interest, requires complex factfinding that necessitates … |
| 24-5006 | Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | GVR | IFP | 18-u.s.c-2250 34-u.s.c-20913 change-of-residence chevron-deference criminal-procedure jury-instructions rule-of-lenity sex-offender-registration smart-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court erroneously instructed the jury regarding a crucial element of the criminal offense of failure to register as a sex offende… |
| 23-1146 | Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension | Minnesota | 2024-04-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause liberty-interest personal-information-disclosure sex-offender-registration stigma | Whether a registration scheme that requires a person to provide detailed information about every aspect of his life, where failing to provide the info… |
| 23-7056 | Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law legislative-power liberty-interests non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration | 1. Did Congress's delegation to Attorneys General the retroactive reach of SORNA to offenders convicted of sex crimes before its enactment violate U.S… |
| 23A762 | Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension | Minnesota | 2024-02-21 | Presumed Complete | criminal-penalties due-process liberty-interest personal-disclosure predatory-offender sex-offender-registration | This case concerns whether a predatory offender registration scheme that requires the submission of detailed personal information about every aspect o… | |
| 23A648 | Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Presumed Complete | attorney-general-authority commerce-clause delegation-doctrine legislative-power sex-offender-registration sorna | Question not identified. | |
| 23-705 | Stephen Robert Deck v. California | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-sanction custody custody-definition due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-custody liberty-interests liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration | Whether California's sex offender registration mandates under Calif. Penal Code section 290 place sufficiently significant burdens on a registrant's l… |
| 23-5761 | Timothy Morse v. Clerk, Clinton District Court | First Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-rights custody custody-requirement due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review sex-offender sex-offender-registration | Whether the Supreme Court should decide that registration by a sex offender satisfies the requirement of custody for habeas corpus purposes to settle … |
| 23-364 | Nima Nazerzadeh v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process fifth-circuit plain-reading rule-of-last-antecedent sex-offender-registration statutory-construction statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon tier-classification | 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's reversal of the district court's order terminating petitioner's sex offender reg… |
| 23-107 | Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | criminal-procedure criminal-sanction custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus liberty liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Federal courts "shall entertain an application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court … |
| 22-7522 | William Sim Spencer v. Joseph M. Gasper, Director, Michigan State Police | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-proceedings section-1983 sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit supervisory-power supreme-court-review | I. Does the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals extension of the § 1983 favorable habeas corpus termination rule announced in Heck v Humphrey, 512 US All (… |
| 22-7240 | Cole Lusby v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process facial-vagueness mens-rea sex-offender-registration vagueness-challenge | 1) Whether this Court's decisions in Johnson v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 2551 (2015) and its progeny enable defendants to raise facial vagueness chal… |
| 22-7129 | Thomas P. Thayer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-conviction federal-law minor minor-protection prior-conviction registration-requirement sex-offender-registration sex-offense statutory-interpretation | This Court has held that, where Congress makes the application of federal law turn on a prior "conviction" that, "by its nature," "involves" certain "… |
| 22-7128 | James Cody McMahon v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-sex-offender civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment free-speech sex-offender-registration social-media | Is Louisiana's statute that prohibits child-sex-offender registrants from using social media meaningfully distinguishable from the North Carolina stat… |
| 22-6974 | Theodore Smith v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights collateral-consequences criminal-procedure due-process sex-offender-registration | i) OA A comxx^ fc o:teDl^ 16 \>&M ^ ^ fa 0fW _ . ^h'J' U-5 <^>[(Aisrji\ r§Vi^uD tx ST^lg T»w^ b>ojr. £ea/l a stag b<? gAtussii Ff^/] 1^)1"' cf cx bam… |
| 22-6929 | Forrest Thomas III v. Brandon M. Smith, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-03 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity sex-offender-registration | Whether a sex offender registry statute, when applied to predators convicted of rape without any sexual motivation to the offense, bears a reasonable … |
| 22-6121 | Michael Paul Conn v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | bouie-principle bouie-v-city-of-columbia due-process judicial-interpretation notice notice-requirement retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration west-virginia | Did it violate the Petitioner's due process right to notice pursuant to Bouie v. City of Columbia, 378 U.S. 347, 84 S.Ct. 1697, 12 L.Ed.2d 894 (1964) … |
| 22-413 | Robert M. Atwell v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2022-11-02 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto public-school school-premises-restriction sex-offender-registration tennessee-law | 1. Was the Petitioner's arrest and conviction under the TSORA a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. CONST., art. 1, sec. 10, cl. 1? |
| 22-5824 | Edward Tyrone Ridley v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-custody habeas-corpus illegal-detention judicial-review procedural-rights sex-offender-registration takings | Question not identified. |
| 22-5642 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-21 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 collateral-consequences custody custody-status direct-consequence habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration suppression-clause suspension-clause writ-of-certiorari | 1. Is A Person In Custody For The Purpose Of Either 28 U.S.C. § 2241 or 28 U.S.C. § 2254 If The Individual Is Still Under A Direct Consequence From Th… |
| 22-5558 | Vince Edward LaSane v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defense-knowledge due-process felony jury-conviction jury-instructions legal-error minor registration-requirements sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Whether the District Court erroneously denied Mr. Lasane's request that Jury instruction on Count Two (committing a felony offense involving a minor w… |
| 21-7197 | Dennis Lee Shaffer v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law ex-post-facto kansas-offender-registration-act punishment-clause retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe | Do the cumulative burdens of the Kansas Offender Registration Act constitute punishment under the test set out in Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003), su… |
| 21-7148 | Mark Allen Banes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism improper-venue interstate-registration registration-compliance sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction | Whether the state of origin where a sex offender is properly registered is an improper venue for hearing a violation of the sex offender's registratio… |
| 21-7066 | Kevin Brewer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arkansas-sex-offender-registration-act certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california notice scienter sex-offender-registration | 1. Can petitioner be liable for constituting any offense, in which the scienter requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has… |
| 21-6723 | Jeremy L. Watson-Buisson v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights computer-aided-solicitation constitutional-challenge criminal-classification equal-protection indecent-liberties jurisdictional-comparison sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registry standing statutory-interpretation | 1) Does the Petitioner lack standing to raise an Equal Protection challenge to Code of Va. § 9.1-902(F) (formerly effective 2018) where the Supreme Co… |
| 21-6719 | N. R. v. Kansas | Kansas | 2021-12-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender-registration | 1. Do the Ex Post Facto Clause and Eighth Amendment permit a state to retroactively impose registration obligations on a person who was adjudicated of… |
| 21-6416 | Bradford S. Davic v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea mandatory-sentences mandatory-sentencing sex-offender-registration trial-court-notification void-plea | FIRST QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW: IS A PETITIONER DENIED DUE PROCESS OF LAW, AND IS HIS GUILTY PLEA VOID, WHERE HIS PLEA WAS NOT ENTERED KNOWINGLY… |
| 21-743 | Donald Lempar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2254 custody custody-definition federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-judgment | Whether a habeas corpus petitioner who is subject only to sex offender registration requirements when he or she filed his or her petition is "in custo… |
| 21-5789 | KT Burgee, aka Kape Teal Burgee v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-classification federal-offense minor minor-protection residual-clause sex-offender-registration sex-offense sorna statutory-interpretation | It is a federal offense for a person who is required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act to knowing… |
| 21-5154 | Dakota Stewart v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-travel prosecutorial-discretion sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction | In a prosecution for failing to update sex offender registration under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), does venue lie in the district where the offender resided … |
| 21-5164 | Larry G. Coker v. Alabama | Alabama | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process illegal-indictment sentencing sex-offender-registration | (A) That Judge Hili re-sentenced Coker to 25 years on uct. 2008/ which was 5 tiroes the amount aiioweo dv iaw/ cruei and unusual punishment/ violated … |
| 20-1587 | Louisiana v. Tazin Ardell Hill | Louisiana | 2021-05-14 | Denied | Amici (1) | compelled-speech first-amendment fraud fraudulent-alteration government-speech sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registry state-id state-identification | (1) May a State require convicted sex offenders to obtain and carry a state identification bearing the words "sex offender" without facially violating… |
| 20-7898 | Edward Tyrone Ridley v. Florida | Florida | 2021-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights collateral-consequences due-process equal-protection legal-stigma sex-offender-registration | Question not identified. |
| 20-7748 | Cavin Burns Francis McKen v. Florida | Florida | 2021-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto sentencing sex-offender-registration | Whether the designation of Petitioner as a Sexual offender Persuant to Florida 8tatutes 3943.0435 is illegal as pertained to this Petitioner. |
| 20-1116 | Anthony Seward v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process federal-criminal-law federalism interstate-registration sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction | A registered sex offender who changes residence from one state to another must register in the new state within three business days of arrival. 34 U.S… | |
| 20-6904 | Billy S. Jeffries v. Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, et al. | Kentucky | 2021-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto juvenile juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration stare-decisis statutory-scheme | In Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84, 105 (2003), this Court found that Alaska's sex offender registration statute was a "civil regulatory scheme" which was "… |
| 20-940 | Alaska v. Sean Wright | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | custody custody-status federal-conviction federal-jurisdiction habeas habeas-corpus maleng-v-cook registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration speedy-trial state-conviction | When an offender has fully served the sentence imposed pursuant to a state conviction, does a federal habeas court have jurisdiction to consider a § 2… |
| 20-6823 | Robert Buttery v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights juvenile-adjudication sex-offender-registration | Whether an adult felony conviction under Ohio's failure to register statute, Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2950.04, violates a defendant's due process and jur… |
| 20-6809 | Anthony Lynn Wood v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-power nondelega tion-doctrine nondelegation separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Should this Court overrule Gundy and, if appropriate, revisit its approach to nondelegation claims, and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit… |
| 20-765 | M. S. Willman v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Sixth Circuit | 2020-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 8th-amendment constitutional-rights declaratory-relief eighth-amendment federal-registry full-faith-and-credit res-judicata sex-offender-registration sorna sorna-compliance | If a State sex offender is not legally required 34 U.S.C. §20921 to be on their Jurisdiction's registry, then they will not appear in the Federal offe… |
| 20-6395 | Howard Griffith v. New York | New York | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof coram-nobis defense-counsel-discovery due-process ny-correction-law procedural-default severability sex-offender-registration sora-modification | Doe v Pataki, 3 F.Supp.2d 456 (SD NY 1998) provides that the People carry the burden of proving the facts to support the recommended registration clas… |
| 20-646 | Michael Tyler Baggott v. Florida | Florida | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice sex-offender-registration | I. Whether the reasoning of Lee v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 1958 (2017) extends to defendants facing lifelong sex offender registration conditions fr… |
| 20-6112 | Oscar Pena Trujillo v. Arizona | Arizona | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment alleyne apprendi apprendi-rule due-process ex-post-facto-clause fact-finding jury-trial sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment southern-union | This Court held in Southern Union Co. v. United States, 567 U.S. 343 (2012), that the rule from Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000), requiring… |
| 20-390 | Brandan A. Mack v. Florida | Florida | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography civil-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure due-process felony-penalty juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration | Where a state enacts long-term sex offender registration requirements which are enforced under threat of felony criminal offense, may the state subjec… |
| 20-272 | Maryland, et al. v. Jimmie Rogers | Maryland | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment | Did the Court of Appeals of Maryland depart from this Court's decisions in Smith v. Doe and Apprendi v. New Jersey in holding, contrary to the decisio… |
| 20-5435 | Garnett Lloyd v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach chevron-deference cyberstalking federal-offense sex-offender-registration sorna sorna-interpretation specified-offense-against-minor | I. Whether the definition of "sex offense" in 34 U.S.C. § 20911(5)(A) includes federal offenses other than those listed in 34 U.S.C. § 20911(5)(A) (ii… |
| 19-8636 | Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-delegation ex-post-facto notification-act retroactive-application sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation | Did the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) unconstitutionally delegate to the Attorney General the decision of whether and how it … |
| 19-8422 | Todd Lee Glenn v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation | Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… |
| 19-1275 | Angel Luis Thomas, Sr. v. Tyree C. Blocker, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-05-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-mandate federal-state-relations fourteenth-amendment sex-offender-registration state-jurisdiction | 1. Does the Commerce Clause empower Congress to impose "Registry requirements for sex offenders," 34 U.S.C. § 20918, directly upon an individual convi… |
| 19-8381 | Joseph Benjamin O'Donnell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… |
| 19-8079 | Mark Steven Elk Shoulder v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act nondelegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration special-relationship statutory-interpretation | Whether SORNA can be applied, retroactively, through the Wetterling Act, to a defendant whose underlying sex offense conviction was prosecuted under t… |
| 19-8054 | Nathan Richard Vineyard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-code eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-registration-requirements notification-requirements sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act sexual-contact statutory-interpretation united-states-v-vineyard | The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ("SORNA"), 34 U.S.C. § 20901 et seq., requires anyone convicted of a sex offense under state law to… |
| 19-7781 | John Charles Fortner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-crimes felony-offense minor minor-involvement minors sentencing sentencing-enhancement sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation | 18 U.S.C. § 2260A is a penalty provision which provides for an additional 10 year consecutive sentence if the defendant is: (1) required to register u… |
| 19-1036 | Teresa Ann Waters v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment adam-walsh-act civil-liberties due-process equal-protection federal-funding sex-offender-registration substantive-due-process tier-classification tier-iii-sex-offender | 1. Whether Ms. Waters is a Tier III sex offender according to 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c). 2. Whether Ms. Waters is a Tier I sex offender according to Adam W… |
| 19-7500 | William Sim Spencer v. Michigan | Michigan | 2020-01-31 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process finality-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment | DOES THE OMISSION OF AN EXCEPTION TO THE FINALITY RULE IN MICHIGAN'S SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION ACT ("SORA") ALLOW THE PROSECUTION TO BUILD ITS CASE AG… |
| 19-6432 | Michael Anthony Thibodeaux v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension | Minnesota | 2019-10-29 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-regulation liberty-interest predatory-offender-registration procedural-due-process procedural-safeguards sex-offender-registration split-authority | The Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution provides that the government may not infringe upon a person's protectable liberty interest wi… |
| 19-6384 | Dieugrand Jacques v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal sex-offender-registration wrongful-conviction | 1. Why thousands of men and women like myself ;in this great country should continue to be kept illegally in prison only because a lawyer presented a… |
| 19-5842 | William Sim Spencer v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus counsel-effectiveness due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrebuttable-presumption sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations | 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 … |
| 19-5633 | James F. Johnson v. Richard S. Tischner, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-08-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-authority due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review parole public-records sex-offender-registration standing | 1. DID THE COURT BELOW WAIVE IT'S POLICY OF NOT TO REVIEW OR OVERTURN ANY DECISION RENDERED BY AND FROM THE APPEALS COURT OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN … |
| 18-9759 | Juan Rodriguez v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cognitive-defects due-process fundamental-rights kennedy-v-mendoza-martinez punishment-analysis rational-basis rational-basis-review sex-offender-registration strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process unfit-defendant | I. Does Illinois's SORA scheme constitute punishment that impinges the fundamental right of unfit defendants to be free from trial or sentencing, thus… |
| 18-1490 | Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki | Third Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Denied | circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded, in conflict with all other circuit courts to have addressed this issue, that Respond… | |
| 18-1378 | Michael Ledet v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections | Louisiana | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | age-element categorical-approach circumstance-specific-approach constitutional-comparison due-process federal-state-comparison fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment modified-categorical-approach sex-offender-registration sorna | In 2006, Congress passed the Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act (SORNA) to make the federal and state systems more uniform and effective. SORN… |
| 18-7820 | Kelly Winton Pierce v. Erik Hooks | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process essential-element jury-instructions sex-offender sex-offender-registration | BELOME UACDNSTITUTIONAL IN VIDLATIDAL OF DUE PROCESS LHEN THE TRIAL JUDGE LHAISGES AND EXPALDS THE DEFIILITIAN DF A ESSESTIAL ELEMELLT DF THE LRIME CH… |
| 18-6981 | Dexter Leon Surratt v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto north-carolina punitive-restrictions retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe | The first generation of sex offender registration statutes required only that offenders register with the government and that information about the of… |
| 18-6852 | Arnold Bennett Caldwell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Relisted (7)IFP | 34-usc-20913 administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-law constitutional-nondelegation criminal-law due-process nondelegation-doctrine notification-act separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act's delegation to the Attorney General in 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) (formerly 42 U.S.C. § 16913(d)… |
| 18-6533 | Anthony Lewallyn v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-registration-requirements due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-travel nichols-precedent nichols-v-united-states registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation | After this Court's opinion in Nichols v. United States, can a sex offender be prosecuted for failing to register or update his registration in the dis… |
| 18-308 | Anthony Rayshon Bethea v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2018-09-11 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto punitive-restrictions retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe | The first generation of sex offender registration statutes required only that offenders register with the government and that information about the of… |
| 18-5750 | Santos Cuevas v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Oregon | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto free-speech sex-offender-registration standing | May a cart convict and sentence a defendant fetitioner or any aceused for statatay sexud offense statuter based on accusations and eidentiary facts tr… |
| 18-194 | Craig Robert Nunn v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. | Tennessee | 2018-08-14 | Denied | community-supervision-for-life constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto parole-conditions retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sex-offender-directives sex-offender-registration | Does the retroactive application of the Sex Offender Directives to Mr. Nunn violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution? |