Doe v. New Hampshire Department of Safety

The respondent, New Hampshire Department of Safety (DOS), appeals an order of the Superior Court (Smukler, J.) granting petitioner John Doe’s motion for summary judgment upon his petition for a declaratory judgment and denying DOS’s cross motion for summary judgment. The trial court held that Doe is not required to register for life as a sex offender. We reverse.

The record supports the following relevant facts. Doe, a New Hampshire resident, pleaded guilty to gross sexual assault in Maine in August 1991. See Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 17-A, § 253(2)(D). In July 1993, he received notice that,…