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More on the Waybright decision finding federal SORNA provision unconstitutional

By Douglas A. Berman

As first noted in this post, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy last week found constitutional problems with provisions of the Adam Walsh Act in US v. Waybright, No. CR 08-16-M-DWM (D. Montana June 11, 2008).  I just received from a friendly reader, and now have made available for download below, the full text of the opinion.  Here is how it starts: Bernard Lenwood Waybright was charged in a two-count indictment with failing to register as a sex offender, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a).  Section 2250(a) is part of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (?SORNA? or the ?Act?).  The section makes it a federal crime for a sex offender who is required to register under SORNA to travel in interstate commerce and then fail to register...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).