Legal Opinion
Snyder v. King
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided December 15, 2011No. 94S00-1101-CQ-50PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SULLIVAN, Justice.
Article II, § 8, of the Indiana Constitution authorizes the General Assembly to disenfranchise “any person convicted of an infamous crime.” David Snyder contends that because misdemeanor battery is not an “infamous crime,” his constitutional rights were violated when his voter registration was canceled after he was convicted and incarcerated for that crime. We agree that the crime in this case was not an “infamous crime” but also hold that the General Assembly has separate constitutional authority to cancel the registration of any person incarcerated following conviction,…
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