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Sex offender prevails with challenge to SORNA conviction in Carr

By Douglas A. Berman

SCOTUSblog already has news on the first Supreme Court opinion handed down this morning, and it is a win for a sex offender appealing his SORNA conviction in Carr.  Here is the early SCOTUSblog report: We have the first opinion: 08-1301, Carr v. United States.... The opinion is by Justice Sotomayor, reversing and remanding.... The vote is 6-3, with Justice Scalia joining most of the Sotomayor opinion but filing a concurrence in part and in the judgment. Justice Alito dissents, joined by Justices Thomas and Ginsburg.... The Court rules that a 2007 law (SORNA) that requires sex offenders to register does not apply to sex offenders whose interstate travel occurred before the Act went into effect. This interesting case appears to have produced an interesting vote line-up (and includes yet another pro-defendant vote from the Chief Justice)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 01, 2010 (boomark / email).