sex-offender-registration
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6702 | Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-02-04 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law due-process nichols-precedent plain-error sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Did the lower courts commit plain error requiring summary reversal by reinterpreting the elements of 18 U.S.C. § 2250, (construed by the unanimous Sup… |
| 25A642 | Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Application | constitutional-challenge criminal-punishment ex-post-facto lifetime-reporting sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit | Whether a state's lifetime sex offender registration requirement constitutes an unconstitutional ex post facto punishment or a permissible regulatory … | |
| 25-79 | Ton Ton Aquino v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Pending | appellate-waiver circuit-split sentencing-conditions sex-offender-registration supervised-release unlawful-sentencing | Whether it is unlawful for a court to impose sex offender registration as a condition of supervised release for a non-qualifying offense, and to enfor… | |
| 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 … |
| 24-912 | Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida | Florida | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto removal-provision sex-offender-registration state-courts | Whether the Court should resolve the question of whether applying a more onerous sex offender registration removal provision violates ex post facto co… |
| 24-6235 | Joseph Furey Lusk v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights jury-trial predicate-offense proof-beyond-reasonable-doubt sentencing sex-offender-registration | Whether the Constitution requires a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant committed a felony offense involving an ac… |
| 24-5336 | Darryl Watts v. New York | New York | 2024-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-proceeding competency constitutional-rights due-process liberty-interest sex-offender-registration | Because a New York Sex Offender Registration Act proceeding implicates a fundamental liberty interest, requires complex factfinding that necessitates … |
| 24-5006 | Jason Steven Kokinda v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | GVR | IFP | 18-u.s.c-2250 34-u.s.c-20913 change-of-residence chevron-deference criminal-procedure jury-instructions rule-of-lenity sex-offender-registration smart-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court erroneously instructed the jury regarding a crucial element of the criminal offense of failure to register as a sex offende… |
| 23-1146 | Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension | Minnesota | 2024-04-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-procedure due-process due-process-clause liberty-interest personal-information-disclosure sex-offender-registration stigma | Whether a registration scheme that requires a person to provide detailed information about every aspect of his life, where failing to provide the info… |
| 23-7056 | Allen Brooks, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law legislative-power liberty-interests non-delegation non-delegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration | Did Congress's delegation to Attorneys General the retroactive reach of SORNA to offenders convicted of sex crimes before its enactment violate U.S. C… |
| 23A762 | Jade Joseph Nickels v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension | Minnesota | 2024-02-21 | Presumed Complete | criminal-penalties due-process liberty-interest personal-disclosure predatory-offender sex-offender-registration | Whether a state's mandatory sex offender registration scheme that requires extensive personal disclosures and imposes criminal penalties for non-compl… | |
| 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… | |
| 23-705 | Stephen Robert Deck v. California | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-sanction custody custody-definition due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus in-custody liberty-interests liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration | Whether California's sex offender registration mandates place sufficiently significant burdens on a registrant's liberty to allow a federal habeas cor… |
| 23-5761 | Timothy Morse v. Clerk, Clinton District Court | First Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split civil-rights custody custody-requirement due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-review sex-offender sex-offender-registration | Whether the Supreme Court should decide that registration by a sex offender satisfies the requirement of custody for habeas corpus purposes to settle … |
| 23-364 | Nima Nazerzadeh v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-05 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process fifth-circuit plain-reading rule-of-last-antecedent sex-offender-registration statutory-construction statutory-interpretation surplusage-canon tier-classification | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's reversal of the district court's order terminating petitioner's sex offender regist… |
| 23-107 | Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | criminal-procedure criminal-sanction custody due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus liberty liberty-restraint sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Whether a person is 'in custody' within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 if that person remains subject for the rest of his life to a state-law sex-off… |
| 22-7522 | William Sim Spencer v. Joseph M. Gasper, Director, Michigan State Police | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-proceedings section-1983 sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit supervisory-power supreme-court-review | Does the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals extension of the § 1983 favorable habeas corpus termination rule announced in Heck v Humphrey, 512 US 477 (199… |
| 22-7240 | Cole Lusby v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-statute due-process facial-vagueness mens-rea sex-offender-registration vagueness-challenge | Whether SORNA's registration requirements are unconstitutionally vague |
| 22-7129 | Thomas P. Thayer v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | categorical-approach criminal-conviction federal-law minor minor-protection prior-conviction registration-requirement sex-offender-registration sex-offense statutory-interpretation | Whether a categorical approach applies to determining if a prior conviction is a federal 'sex offense' |
| 22-7128 | James Cody McMahon v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-03-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-sex-offender civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-restrictions due-process first-amendment free-speech sex-offender-registration social-media | Whether Louisiana's statute prohibiting child-sex-offender registrants from using social media is meaningfully distinguishable from the North Carolina… |
| 22-6974 | Theodore Smith v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights collateral-consequences criminal-procedure due-process sex-offender-registration | Whether a conviction for failing to register as a sex offender violates the 2nd Amendment and Due Process Clause |
| 22-6929 | Forrest Thomas III v. Brandon M. Smith, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2023-03-03 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-disparity sex-offender-registration | Whether the sex offender classification policies as applied to Petitioner, convicted of a non-sexual offense, violate substantive due process |
| 22-6121 | Michael Paul Conn v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2022-11-21 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | bouie-principle bouie-v-city-of-columbia due-process judicial-interpretation notice notice-requirement retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration west-virginia | Did the retroactive application of a new interpretation of a state sex offender registration law violate due process? |
| 22-413 | Robert M. Atwell v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2022-11-02 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto public-school school-premises-restriction sex-offender-registration tennessee-law | Was the Petitioner's arrest and conviction under the TSORA a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. CONST., art. 1, sec. 10, cl. 1? |
| 22-5824 | Edward Tyrone Ridley v. Antoine Caldwell, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto federal-custody habeas-corpus illegal-detention judicial-review procedural-rights sex-offender-registration takings | Whether the Georgia statute OCGA 42-1-12 violates the Due Process Clause and the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution |
| 22-5642 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-21 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2241 28-usc-2254 collateral-consequences custody custody-status direct-consequence habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration suppression-clause suspension-clause writ-of-certiorari | Is a person in custody for the purpose of 28 U.S.C. § 2241 or 28 U.S.C. § 2254 if the individual is still under a direct consequence from the criminal… |
| 22-5558 | Vince Edward LaSane v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure defense-knowledge due-process felony jury-conviction jury-instructions legal-error minor registration-requirements sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court erroneously denied Mr. Lasane's request that the jury instruction on Count Two (committing a felony offense involving a min… |
| 21-7197 | Dennis Lee Shaffer v. Kansas | Kansas | 2022-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law criminal-law ex-post-facto kansas-offender-registration-act punishment-clause retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe | Do the cumulative burdens of the Kansas Offender Registration Act constitute punishment under the test set out in Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84 (2003), su… |
| 21-7148 | Mark Allen Banes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federalism improper-venue interstate-registration registration-compliance sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction | Whether the state of origin where a sex offender is properly registered is an improper venue for hearing a violation of the sex offender's registratio… |
| 21-7066 | Kevin Brewer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arkansas-sex-offender-registration-act certificate-of-innocence constitutional-claim due-process fourteenth-amendment lambert-v-california notice scienter sex-offender-registration | Can petitioner be liable for constituting any offense, in which the scienter requirements of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has no… |
| 21-6723 | Jeremy L. Watson-Buisson v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights computer-aided-solicitation constitutional-challenge criminal-classification equal-protection indecent-liberties jurisdictional-comparison sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registry standing statutory-interpretation | Does the Petitioner lack standing to raise an Equal Protection challenge to Code of Va. § 9.1-902(F) (formerly effective 2018) |
| 21-6719 | N. R. v. Kansas | Kansas | 2021-12-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment ex-post-facto juvenile-adjudication juvenile-justice retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender-registration | Do the Ex Post Facto Clause and Eighth Amendment permit a retroactive imposition of registration obligations on a person adjudicated of a sex offense … |
| 21-6416 | Bradford S. Davic v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea mandatory-sentences mandatory-sentencing sex-offender-registration trial-court-notification void-plea | Is a petitioner denied due process of law, and is his guilty plea void, where his plea was not entered knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily, due t… |
| 21-743 | Donald Lempar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2254 custody custody-definition federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-judgment | Whether a habeas corpus petitioner who is subject only to sex offender registration requirements when he or she filed his or her petition is 'in custo… |
| 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… |
| 21-5154 | Dakota Stewart v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-statute due-process interstate-travel prosecutorial-discretion sex-offender-registration venue venue-jurisdiction | In a prosecution for failing to update sex offender registration under 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), does venue lie in the district where the offender resided … |
| 21-5164 | Larry G. Coker v. Alabama | Alabama | 2021-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment amendment-violation constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process illegal-indictment sentencing sex-offender-registration | Whether the re-sentencing of the petitioner to 25 years, which exceeded the lawful sentence, violated the 8th Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusu… |
| 20-1587 | Louisiana v. Tazin Ardell Hill | Louisiana | 2021-05-14 | Denied | Amici (1) | compelled-speech first-amendment fraud fraudulent-alteration government-speech sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registry state-id state-identification | May a State require convicted sex offenders to obtain and carry a state identification bearing the words 'sex offender' without facially violating the… |
| 20-7898 | Edward Tyrone Ridley v. Florida | Florida | 2021-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights collateral-consequences due-process equal-protection legal-stigma sex-offender-registration | Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the state's failure to properly register him as a sex offender and the resulting legal st… |
| 20-7748 | Cavin Burns Francis McKen v. Florida | Florida | 2021-04-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto sentencing sex-offender-registration | Whether the designation of the petitioner as a sexual offender pursuant to Florida Statutes §943.0435 is illegal as applied to the petitioner |
| 20-1116 | Anthony Seward v. United States | First Circuit | 2021-02-12 | Denied | criminal-procedure criminal-venue due-process federal-criminal-law federalism interstate-registration sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation venue venue-jurisdiction | Whether venue lies in the state where the defendant formerly resided for a prosecution of failure to register as a sex offender | |
| 20-6904 | Billy S. Jeffries v. Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, et al. | Kentucky | 2021-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge due-process ex-post-facto juvenile juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration stare-decisis statutory-scheme | Whether a court evaluating an ex post facto challenge to a statute that has previously been found to be nonpunitive and has since been amended should … |
| 20-940 | Alaska v. Sean Wright | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-13 | GVR | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | custody custody-status federal-conviction federal-jurisdiction habeas habeas-corpus maleng-v-cook registration sex-offender sex-offender-registration speedy-trial state-conviction | When an offender has fully served the sentence imposed pursuant to a state conviction, does a federal habeas court have jurisdiction to consider a § 2… |
| 20-6823 | Robert Buttery v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendment criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-trial-rights juvenile-adjudication sex-offender-registration | Whether an adult felony conviction under Ohio's failure to register statute violates due process and jury trial rights |
| 20-6809 | Anthony Lynn Wood v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-power nondelega tion-doctrine nondelegation separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Should this Court overrule Gundy and, if appropriate, revisit its approach to nondelegation claims, and hold that 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) is an unconstit… |
| 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 |
| 20-6395 | Howard Griffith v. New York | New York | 2020-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | burden-of-proof coram-nobis defense-counsel-discovery due-process ny-correction-law procedural-default severability sex-offender-registration sora-modification | Whether the documents that a defense counsel is entitled to have access to prior to an initial Sex Offender Registry hearing also refer to the documen… |
| 20-646 | Michael Tyler Baggott v. Florida | Florida | 2020-11-12 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prejudice sex-offender-registration | Whether the reasoning of Lee v. United States extends to defendants facing lifelong sex offender registration conditions |
| 20-6112 | Oscar Pena Trujillo v. Arizona | Arizona | 2020-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 6th-amendment alleyne apprendi apprendi-rule due-process ex-post-facto-clause fact-finding jury-trial sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment southern-union | Does the Sixth Amendment right to jury trial require submitting to the jury questions of fact that mandate sex offender registration? |
| 20-390 | Brandan A. Mack v. Florida | Florida | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography civil-rights criminal-offense criminal-procedure due-process felony-penalty juvenile-offender sex-offender-registration | Whether a state may subject a juvenile offender to long-term sex offender registration requirements following conviction for possession of child porno… |
| 20-272 | Maryland, et al. v. Jimmie Rogers | Maryland | 2020-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment sentencing sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment | Did the Court of Appeals of Maryland depart from this Court's decisions in Smith v. Doe and Apprendi v. New Jersey |
| 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) |
| 19-8636 | Silas Bernard Peterson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-delegation ex-post-facto notification-act retroactive-application sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation unconstitutional-delegation | Did the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) unconstitutionally delegate to the Attorney General the decision of whether and how it … |
| 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… |
| 19-1275 | Angel Luis Thomas, Sr. v. Tyree C. Blocker, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-05-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment commerce-clause constitutional-law constitutional-limits criminal-law due-process federal-mandate federal-state-relations fourteenth-amendment sex-offender-registration state-jurisdiction | Does the Commerce Clause empower Congress to impose 'Registry requirements for sex offenders,' 34 U.S.C. § 20918, directly upon an individual convicte… |
| 19-8381 | Joseph Benjamin O'Donnell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-04-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law constitutional-law executive-branch legislative-authority nondelegation-doctrine separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration 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… |
| 19-8079 | Mark Steven Elk Shoulder v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | federal-jurisdiction major-crimes-act nondelegation-doctrine retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration special-relationship statutory-interpretation | Whether SORNA can be applied, retroactively, through the Wetterling Act, to a defendant whose underlying sex offense conviction was prosecuted under t… |
| 19-8054 | Nathan Richard Vineyard v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-code eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law federal-registration-requirements notification-requirements sex-offender-registration sex-offender-registration-and-notification-act sexual-contact statutory-interpretation united-states-v-vineyard | Whether SORNA extends to anything meeting the dictionary definitions of 'sexual' and 'contact' or is instead limited to the intentional touching of ce… |
| 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? |
| 19-1036 | Teresa Ann Waters v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment adam-walsh-act civil-liberties due-process equal-protection federal-funding sex-offender-registration substantive-due-process tier-classification tier-iii-sex-offender | Whether Ms. Waters is a Tier III sex offender according to 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c) |
| 19-7500 | William Sim Spencer v. Michigan | Michigan | 2020-01-31 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process finality-rule fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment | Does the omission of an exception to the finality rule in Michigan's sex offender registration act allow the prosecution to build its case against cri… |
| 19-6432 | Michael Anthony Thibodeaux v. Drew Evans, Superintendent, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension | Minnesota | 2019-10-29 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process government-regulation liberty-interest predatory-offender-registration procedural-due-process procedural-safeguards sex-offender-registration split-authority | Whether a person has a protectable liberty interest in not registering as a sex offender if he has not been convicted of a sex offense |
| 19-6384 | Dieugrand Jacques v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal sex-offender-registration wrongful-conviction | Why thousands of men and women like myself in this great country should continue to be kept illegally in prison only because a lawyer presented a fake… |
| 19-5842 | William Sim Spencer v. Michigan | Michigan | 2019-09-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | actus-reus counsel-effectiveness due-process fourteenth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrebuttable-presumption sex-offender-registration sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations | Where it can be shown that the order to register as a sex offender is not limited in scope to stand on a valid guilty plea supported by the effective … |
| 19-5633 | James F. Johnson v. Richard S. Tischner, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-08-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custodial-authority due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review parole public-records sex-offender-registration standing | Whether the court below waived its policy of not reviewing or overturning decisions from the D.C. Appeals Court |
| 18-9759 | Juan Rodriguez v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cognitive-defects due-process fundamental-rights kennedy-v-mendoza-martinez punishment-analysis rational-basis rational-basis-review sex-offender-registration strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process unfit-defendant | Does Illinois's SORA scheme constitute punishment that impinges the fundamental right of unfit defendants to be free from trial or sentencing, thus fa… |
| 18-1490 | Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, et al. v. Jason Piasecki | Third Circuit | 2019-05-30 | Denied | circuit-split custody federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus in-custody probation sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-conviction state-criminal-convictions third-circuit | Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously concluded that the respondent, who was no longer serving his state sentence of probation at the… | |
| 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… |
| 18-7820 | Kelly Winton Pierce v. Erik Hooks | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process essential-element jury-instructions sex-offender sex-offender-registration | Whether a criminal defendant's jury trial was fundamentally violated due to the trial judge's jury instructions that changed and expanded the definiti… |
| 18-6981 | Dexter Leon Surratt v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-challenge criminal-law due-process ex-post-facto north-carolina punitive-restrictions retroactive-application retroactivity sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe | Whether the retroactive application of North Carolina's sex offender registration statute violates the Ex Post Facto Clause |
| 18-6852 | Arnold Bennett Caldwell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Relisted (7)IFP | 34-usc-20913 administrative-law attorney-general attorney-general-authority constitutional-law constitutional-nondelegation criminal-law due-process nondelegation-doctrine notification-act separation-of-powers sex-offender-registration statutory-interpretation | Whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act's delegation to the Attorney General in 34 U.S.C. § 20913(d) violates the constitutional no… |
| 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 … |
| 18-308 | Anthony Rayshon Bethea v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2018-09-11 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto punitive-restrictions retroactive-application sex-offender-registration smith-v-doe | Whether the retroactive application of North Carolina's sex offender registration statute violates the Ex Post Facto Clause |
| 18-5750 | Santos Cuevas v. Brandon Kelly, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Oregon | 2018-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto free-speech sex-offender-registration standing | Whether the United States Constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause prohibits a state from convicting a defendant for a statutory sexual offense based on pa… |
| 18-194 | Craig Robert Nunn v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. | Tennessee | 2018-08-14 | Denied | community-supervision-for-life constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ex-post-facto parole-conditions retroactive-application retroactive-punishment sex-offender-directives sex-offender-registration | Does the retroactive application of the Sex Offender Directives to Mr. Nunn violate the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution? |