Commonwealth v. Killinger

OPINION

Justice BAER.

We are asked to revisit Pennsylvania’s Registration of Sexual Offenders Act (hereinafter, “Megan’s Law II” or the “Act”) 1 to determine whether a subsection of the Act’s sanction provision violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 2 In Commonwealth v. Williams, 574 Pa. 487, 832 A.2d 962 (2003) (Williams II), this Court held that the Act’s registration, notification, and counseling requirements, applicable to sex offenders deemed “sexually violent predators” (SVP), passed constitutional muster. 3 Conversely, in Williams…