Commonwealth v. Brown

¶ 1 I agree with my distinguished colleagues that this Court’s decision in Commonwealth v. Halye, 719 A.2d 763 (Pa.Super.1998) (en banc) is dispositive of the sixth issue raised by Timothy Nathan Brown on this appeal. In Halye, we concluded that Section 9794 of the Registration of Sexual Offenders Act, 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9791-9799.6 (the Act) violates the due process clause of the federal constitution. Id. at 769. As a consequence, we struck as unconstitutional “§ 9794 of Title 42 and all remaining sections of the Act which refer to the designation of a ‘sexually violent predator.’ ” Id.

¶ 2 I also…