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11th Circuit Upholds SORNA (Again)

By Corey Rayburnyung

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals today released an opinion in a case involving various challenges to SORNA, including under the Commerce and Necessary and Proper Clauses. The constitutional issues were previously decided by the Eleventh Circuit in United States v. Ambert, 561 F.3d 1202 (11th Cir. 2009), but were raised apparently for preservation purposes. In addition to upholding SORNA, the Court found that sex offenders are not exempt from its registration requirements, even when the jurisdiction in which he is required to register has not yet implemented SORNA. You may read the full opinion here. Interestingly, the Court did discuss the defendant's claim that he had no duty to register under SORNA because he had no notice of the duty to register (relying on Lambert v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on November 06, 2009 (boomark / email).