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A Potentially Successful Challenge to a Retroactive Sex Offender Registration Law

By Smith Law Offices,

Wow!  A potential opening to challenge the retroactive nature of Maine's Sex Offender Registration law.  A case was filed anonymously and dismissed in the lower court challenging a recent retroactive measure that would sweep offenders with cases as far back as 1982 into the sex registration net.  The sex offender registration law has been litigated before in State v. Haskell, 2001 ME 154 without success.  Subsequently, the legislature amended the SORNA law to be much broader and more "punitive." Subsequent to the legislative amendments the US Suprereme Court decided the case of Smith v. Doe which challenged Alaska's SORNA.  While Alaska's law was upheld, the court in Maine heavily cited the Alaska statute as much more narrowly tailored than Maine's...continue to full post

Full post as published by SexCrimeDefender on September 27, 2007 (boomark / email).