Legal Opinion
United States v. Stevenson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 23, 2012No. 10-1043, 10-1117PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Carlos Flowers and Derick Stevenson were both convicted of state-law sex offenses requiring them to register before the enactment of the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA”), 120 Stat. 590, 42 U.S.C. § 16901 et seq. (2006 ed. and Supp. III). Both were indicted for traveling in interstate commerce in 2009 and knowingly failing to update their registrations. The district court dismissed each of their indictments, holding that SORNA had not yet been made retroactively applicable to defendants like Flowers and Stevenson. The…
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