Legal Opinion
A.S. v. Pennsylvania State Police
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided August 15, 2016No. 24 MAP 2014PublishedCited by 152 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice DOUGHERTY.
In this appeal by the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) from a grant of mandamus relief, we revisit an issue that evenly divided the Court in Commonwealth v. Gehris, 618 Pa. 104, 54 A.3d 862 (2012), concerning the proper construction of the lifetime-registration triggering language “two or more convictions” in Pennsylvania’s former sex offender registration statute, Megan’s Law II (formerly codified at 42 Pa.C.S. § 9795.1(b)(1) (superseded)).1 In accordance with the Gehris *406Opinion in Support of Reversal (OISR), as supplemented by our analysis below, we hold the…
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