SORNA
13 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6797 | Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-analysis circumstance-specific-analysis criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance sex-offender-registration SORNA | QP: Did the district court err when it used a circumstance-specific analysis to determine that the petitioner's state conviction subjected him to sex … |
| 23A648 | Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-12 | Presumed Complete | attorney-general-authority commerce-clause delegation-doctrine legislative-power sex-offender-registration sorna | Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) unconstitutionally delegates legislative authority to the Attorney General and exce… | |
| 22-5265 | Preston Hester, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | advisory-guidelines advisory-range criminal-procedure district-court due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines SORNA SORNA-tier tier-level | Whether the district court's failure to determine Mr. Hester's correct SORNA tier level in calculating the correct advisory Guideline sentencing range… |
| 21-6119 | Roger Edward Picard v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states scienter sorna SORNA-registration supervised-release | Whether the First Circuit erred in finding a violation of supervised release when the defendant reported to register per SORNA requirements within 24 … |
| 21-5789 | KT Burgee, aka Kape Teal Burgee v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-classification federal-offense minor minor-protection residual-clause sex-offender-registration sex-offense sorna statutory-interpretation | Should courts apply the categorical approach to determine if a prior conviction qualifies as a sex offense under the SORNA residual clause in 34 U.S.C… |
| 20-8247 | Marcus Darwyn Jones v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness prosecutor-misconduct prosecutorial-misrepresentation sentencing-consequences sorna waiver | Whether reliance on a prosecutor's legal misstatements regarding the consequences of a guilty plea renders that plea involuntary and unknowing |
| 20-765 | M. S. Willman v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Sixth Circuit | 2020-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 8th-amendment constitutional-rights declaratory-relief eighth-amendment federal-registry full-faith-and-credit res-judicata sex-offender-registration sorna sorna-compliance | Whether state sex offenders are only required to register with their jurisdiction or if SORNA imposes an independent federal registration obligation |
| 20-347 | Charles Malcolm Spivey, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-15 | Denied | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-prosecution due-process forum-shopping interstate-commerce registration-requirement sorna venue | Whether venue for a prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a) for failing to update a registration under SORNA after traveling in interstate commerce can … | |
| 20-5435 | Garnett Lloyd v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach chevron-deference cyberstalking federal-offense sex-offender-registration sorna sorna-interpretation specified-offense-against-minor | Whether SORNA's definition of 'sex offense' includes federal offenses not listed in § 20911(5)(A)(iii) |
| 19-8422 | Todd Lee Glenn v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law executive-branch gundy-v-united-states legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation | Whether this Court should revisit its nondelegation doctrine precedent and, in doing so, overrule Gundy and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an uncon… |
| 19-7781 | John Charles Fortner v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law criminal-sentencing federal-crimes felony-offense minor minor-involvement minors sentencing sentencing-enhancement sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation | Does 18 U.S.C. § 2260A require the underlying listed offense to involve an actual minor? |
| 18-1378 | Michael Ledet v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections | Louisiana | 2019-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | age-element categorical-approach circumstance-specific-approach constitutional-comparison due-process federal-state-comparison fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment modified-categorical-approach sex-offender-registration sorna | Whether the constitutional due process requirements that apply to a federal agency or federal court comparing the elements of state and federal offens… |
| 18-6533 | Anthony Lewallyn v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-registration-requirements due-process federal-criminal-law interstate-travel nichols-precedent nichols-v-united-states registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration sorna statutory-interpretation | Can a sex offender be prosecuted for failing to register or update his registration in the district where he began his interstate travel but in which … |