United States v. Vasquez

OPINION AND ORDER

CHARLES R. NORGLE, District Judge.

Before the Court is Defendant Isaac Vasquez’s Motion to Dismiss the Indictment pursuant to Fed.R.Crim.P. 12(b)(2). The indictment charges the Defendant with failing to register as a sex offender under the 2006 Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, or “SORNA,” codified at 42 U.S.C. § 16912 et seq. The Defendant raises a variety of constitutional and procedural challenges to SORNA, which the Court shall determine as a matter of first impression. For the following reasons, the Defendant’s motion is denied.

I. BACKGROUND

A. Facts

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