Where a defendant, who pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender, argued that a provision of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act that delegated authority to the attorney general to determine which pre-SORNA convictions were included ...

Tagged with: Non-Delegation Doctrine Sex Offender Registration

Where the state highway patrol challenged the trial court’s grant of a registered sex offender’s petition to have his name removed from the sex-offender registry, the offense was the lowest classification offense despite a recent renaming of the tiers of ...

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In the Interest of S.C. v. Juvenile Officer (MLW No. 68463/Case No. SC95049 – 7 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Draper III, J.; all concur) Appealed from circuit court, St. Louis City, Mason, J. (Patricia Harrison and Jeffrey Estes, St. Louis, for appellant) (Laura Harold, St. Louis, represented the juvenile officer).

Tagged with: Constitutional Law Juvenile Offender Ripeness Sex Offender Registration

Keeney v. Fitch (MLW No. 67588/Case No. ED101981 – 14 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Sullivan, J.)

Tagged with: Criminal Law Sex Offender Registration

A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday said a man caught during a sting on homosexual sex at a St. Louis rest stop in 1988 doesn’t have to register as a sex offender because the crime he pleaded guilty to is no longer a crime.

Tagged with: Sex Offender Registration

U.S. v. Anderson (MLW No. 67139/Case No. 14-1165 – 10 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Bye, J.)

Tagged with: Commerce Clause Criminal Law Sex Offender Registration

Doe v. Replogle (MLW No. 65635/Case No. SD32538 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Sheffield, J.)

Tagged with: Constitutional Law Retrospective Law Sex Offender Registration

Roe v. Replogle (MLW No. 65569/Case No. SC92978 – 17 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Breckenridge, J.; all concur)

Tagged with: Constitutional Law Ex Post Facto Sex Offender Registration

Solomon v. St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office (MLW No. 65268/Case No. ED98559 – 6 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Quigless, J.)

Tagged with: Criminal Law Sex Offender Registration

U.S. v. Fernandez (MLW No. 64835/Case No. 12-2757 – 6 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, per curiam)

Tagged with: Criminal Law Sex Offender Registration

Salasberry v. State (MLW No. 64815/Case No. WD74584 – 5 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Mitchell, J.)

Tagged with: Amendment Criminal Law Retrospective Law Sex Offender Registration