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SORNA and the Commerce Clause

By Corey Rayburnyung

The final version of my short Federal Sentencing Reporter article, The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act and the Commerce Clause, is up on SSRN. You can find it here (click download to get the full article in PDF form). This is the abstract:In 2006, the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ("SORNA") created a new federal crime of "failure to register" which is punishable by up to ten years imprisonment. Since that time, sex offenders across the country have been prosecuted even though the offenders had no prior connection to the federal criminal justice system. For almost all of the prosecutions under SORNA, the argued jurisdictional basis for federal prosecution has been that the sex offender travelled across state lines...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 11, 2009 (boomark / email).