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· 6/14/2012

United States v. Joshua Elkins

Citations

  • 683 F.3d 1039
  • 2012 WL 2149462
  • 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 12065

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that, because SORNA’s requirements are not punitive, it is not a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause to apply SORNA to a defendant based on his conviction as a juvenile sex offender
  • holding that the Ex Post Facto Clause “bars the enactment of any law that imposes a punishment for an act which was not punishable at the time it was committed; or imposes additional punishment to that then prescribed.”
  • applying SORNA to failure to register in Washington

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Judges: Nelson, Tashima, Callahan

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