United States v. Whitlow

STAHL, Circuit Judge.

Alvin Whitlow, a convicted sex offender, moved from the District of Columbia to Massachusetts in 2009 without complying with the’ Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA or the Act), 42 U.S.C. §§ 16901-16962. He was then arrested and indicted for violating 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), which criminalizes a knowing failure to abide by SORNA’s registration requirements. Whitlow pled guilty, but has preserved a number of arguments he first made in an unsuccessful motion to dismiss the ■ indictment, including that SORNA exceeds Congress’s constitutional authority, -that…