It is good news in the sense that if SCOTUS refuses to hear any case from the next lower court….. then the decision of that lower court now becomes law and precedent for other cases. If the higher court refuses any case, the lower decision stands and cannot be challenged in that case again. So, effectively, refusing the case automatically affirms that SORNA is unconstitutional in PA! This is GREAT news for other states fighting the same kinds of cases, and gives legal precedent to cite!

PA determines that it violates Fed law. Fed law doesn’t agree and refuses to consider the possibility.

So this is like a misdemeanor traffic stop being brought up to a leve of a vehicular homicide. Younare convicted of a broken tail loght and pay the fine and move on. Later you go to another state and that burnt bulb somehow turns into a dui multiple homicide.

I have a wonderful case and I cannot get an attorney to return my phone call….In 1991 I plead guilty to 1st degree sexual abuse in Kentucky which is a Class C Felony…I did not have to register as a sex offender because my plea predated the Sex Offender Registry. I moved to Tennessee where I did not know I had to register. I was arrested and told not only did I have to register as a sex offender in this state but they said the equivalent of the Kentucky Charge was 1St degree aggravated sexual assault which is a class B Felony. So now I not only have to register for the rest of my life, I have to be held to the standards of a Class B felony instead of a Class C!!!! How can they do this!!

I agree

Welcome to the world of the double bind. I totally get where you guys are coming from..Being on the sex offender registry is equal to probation minus the piss test and I am surprised they have not pulled that one over on us. I live in Tennessee and I saw a post on google that people were moving to this state for lax laws on the sex offender registry!! Bull****!! I plead guilty to a Class C felony in the state of Kentucky where I do not even have to register but moved to Tennessee and was told that the equivalent to what I plead to was a Class B Felony in this state and was put at at tier 3 lifetimer. I cannot understand how you plea out to a Class C Felony and are held to the standard of a Class B Felony it makes no since whatsoever!! Then you know how they are suppose to put the state you committed the crime in and have all your correct info on the registry..Well they do not have it on mine..It says no where Kentucky conviction so if you pull me up you would think that I committed the crime in Tennessee and it still says I have a probation officer named Paig Jackson..I was on probation from 91-96 and never had a female probation officer. I cannot believe that I am even having to type this all these years later. I was 18 when I got in trouble now 45 years old, never been charged with another thing period and here I am all these years later having to worry with this Scarlet Letter they have branded most of us with..It sucks, they can walk all over the constitution and do anything they want with us, but like you said..Its not punishment..What do you call it praise??!!!

Shaun,
You can do it, but you will have to wait til you get off the registry in your state. When you get off the registry then go to the tbi.gov website and pull up the address write the a letter asking for you to be removed from the registry and send proof that you were taken off the registry where you are. That should get you off in Tennessee I am not sure about Florida I would think it would work in sorta the same fashion maybe..Best of Luck
David

Twitch – you should only trust advise on your issue from a licensed attorney.

Thanks!