Legal Opinion
People v. Patterson
Criminal Court of the City of New York
Decided April 25, 2000PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Ethan Greenberg, J.
Defendant Charles Patterson is charged with the crime of failure to register as a sex offender pursuant to the Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA), sometimes known as “Megan’s Law.”1 He now moves to dismiss the complaint in this case on the ground that it is facially insufficient. Defendant’s motion raises two interesting issues with respect to this complex and still relatively new law, namely: (1) the proper geographical jurisdiction for a prosecution for failure to register, and (2) in such a prosecution, the extent to which the People must plead and…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Morissette v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Hamling v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Staples v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- United States v. United States Gypsum Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Cheek v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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3Cited by21 opinions
- People Ex Rel. Birkett v. KonetskiIllinois Supreme Court · 2009
- People v. MolnarIllinois Supreme Court · 2006
- State v. T.R.D.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 2008
- State v. TRDSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2008
- People v. LopezColorado Court of Appeals · 2006
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