Commonwealth v. Leidig

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• holding that the trial court’s failure to accurately advise the defendant of the duration of his registration period did not constitute grounds for post-sentence withdrawal of his plea, where the sex offender registration requirements were merely collateral consequences of his plea
• “[T]here is no question . . . that the registration requirements of Megan’s Law are a collateral consequence of conviction.”
• registration provisions of Megan’s Law do not constitute criminal punishment and are properly characterized as a “collateral consequence” of the defendant’s plea

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).