Roe v. Farwell

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• finding Massachusetts' sex offender registration provision to be a collateral consequence of guilty plea
• registration requirements of Massachusetts law not violative of ex post facto clause, although unlimited public access provisions too broad to be constitutional
• the Supreme Court has not produced a single standard and “the applicability of any such framework to sex offender registry provisions is blurry”
• “Circuit courts that have addressed this issue have not been persuaded by arguments concerning the risk of physical violence, stigma, or impairment of employment opportunities such as Roe advances here.”
• all fifty States have some version of a sex offender registration and notification statute

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