United States v. Thompson

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO DISMISS

JOHN A. WOODCOCK, JR., Chief Judge.

Charged with violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SOR-NA), Kenneth Thompson moves to dismiss the Indictment; the Court denies the motion. It concludes that SORNA does not violate the non-delegation doctrine, the Commerce Clause, the freedom to travel, the Due Process Clause, the Ex Post Facto Clause, and that venue is proper in the District of Maine.

I. BACKGROUND

On November 12, 2008, a federal grand jury indicted Kenneth Thompson for failure to register as a sex offender as required by SORNA, in…