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CA - Sex offender registration law constitutional, 9th Circuit says

Original Article Related Article 12/31/2010 By Denny Walsh Reversing a Sacramento federal judge, an appellate court has ruled that the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause empowers Congress to compel and regulate interstate sex-offender registration. In April 2008 [name withheld] was charged in an indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in Sacramento with violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, or SORNA. [name withheld] had traveled from California to Missouri after he was released from prison and failed to register as a sex offender in either state. In February 2009, U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton threw out the indictment, holding that federal statutes under which [name withheld] was charged comprised an invalid exercise of congressional authority to regulate interstate commerce...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on December 31, 2010 (boomark / email).