Legal Opinion

United States v. Charles Goodwin

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided May 8, 2013No. 12-2921PublishedCited by 93 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TINDER, Circuit Judge.

Charles Goodwin pleaded guilty to knowingly failing to register and update a registration as a sex offender, as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA”). He was sentenced to 27 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by a life term of supervised release, subject to ten special conditions. Goodwin claims that the relevant SORNA provision is an unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority; argues that the district court committed plain error by miscalculating his advisory Sentencing Guidelines range for supervised release and then…

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