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People v. Madera (Part III)

By Corey Rayburnyung

On this last post about Madera, I cover the Appellant's reply brief.  Sadly, the reply brief doesn't make any new arguments in regards to the commerce clause.  There are a lot of interesting arguments that you should check out for yourself.  However, because the reply brief doesn't advance this argument further, I thought I'd pick up the ball and run with it.  Based upon all the district court decisions and the way defendants are appealing, I can tell not many have subscribed to my particular views regarding the commerce clause and the SORNA provisions in the AWA.  So, I thought I'd offer a different example to flesh out why I think the jurisdictional language of the statue is wholly inadequate. Imagine a federal murder statute...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 19, 2008 (boomark / email).