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District Court in Third Circuit Upholds SORNA

By Corey Rayburnyung

A federal judge in Delaware has issued an order dismissing a constitutional challenge of the Adam Walsh Act. The decision is believed to be the first time a court in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled on a commerce clause challenge to the Walsh Act's registration requirement. You can read the opinion here. From DelawareOnline.com: In a ruling hailed as an "important victory" for advocates and prosecutors, a federal judge in Delaware upheld a federal law designed to track sexual predators through a national registry. Chief District Judge Gregory M. Sleet dismissed a challenge by convicted pedophile Thomas Pendleton to the 2006 Adam Walsh Act, finding Pendleton's argument that Congress overreached its authority in creating the registry was not persuasive...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on February 12, 2009 (boomark / email).