State of Indiana v. Charles Summers

VAIDIK, Chief Judge.

Case Summary

[1] After being ordered to register as a sex offender in Illinois for ten years, Charles Summers moved to Indiana. Summers later registered as a sex offender in Indiana. When Indiana applied its tolling statute to Summers (in order to extend Summers’ registration period by the amount of time he was incarcerated in Indiana for new crimes committed), Summers claimed that applying the statute to him violated Indiana’s prohibition against ex post facto laws. He argued that when he committed his underlying offense in Illinois, Indiana had not yet enacted its tolling…