PA: State Supreme Court remanding cases after Muniz

Sex offender cases in Pennsylvania are being remanded in the wake of Commonwealth v. Muniz, the PA case which found their registry unconstitutional under the ex post facto clauses of the United States and Pennsylvania Constitutions. In Commonwealth v. Polzer, the appellant introduced the issue of whether, “SORNA’S irrebuttable presumption that all sexual offenders pose a high risk of reoffending

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SCOTUS Agrees to hear Sex Offense Case on Applying SORNA Retroactively

Weekly Update 2018-03-06 Dear Members and Advocates, The Supreme Court of the United States will be considering a “sex offender case” in it’s upcoming session. The case is Gundy v. United States and the essential decision the Court is being asked to make is whether the Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) can be applied retroactively, as written. SORNA, which

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ACLU: BROWARD COUNTY CHAPTER ANNUAL MEETING

Sat., Mar. 10, 12-3 p.m. West Regional Library 8601 West Broward Boulevard Plantation, Florida 33324 This year’s dynamic speakers will talk about civil liberties issues that will affect Floridians in the months ahead. Panelists include: Howard Simon, ACLU of Florida executive director, will discuss the ACLU’s nationwide resistance efforts to the Trump agenda over the past year, and the work

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The Hill: The Sex Offender Registry: Vengeful, unconstitutional and due for full repeal

The following is an EXCELLENT article published in The Hill.   The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that at least 95 percent of all state prisoners will be released from prison at some point. However, convicted sex-offenders almost exclusively face the vengeful, additional punishment of registration under the Sex Offender Registry and Notification Act (SORNA). SORNA violates our nation’s founding documents by singling

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