State v. Holden

WILLIAM RAY PRICE, JR., Judge.

William Holden pled guilty to two counts of sodomy with a child under the age of fourteen years in 1995. When Holden was released in 2001, he began complying with the registration requirements for sexual offenders pursuant to sections 589.4001 et seq. In 2007, Holden was charged with failing to register a change of address ■within ten days pursuant to section 589.414.2 The jury found Holden guilty, and Holden was sentenced to four years.

Holden appeals this judgment and argues that section 589.414 is unconstitutional as a retrospective law because he committed the…