Legal Opinion

United States v. Edwin James

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided July 7, 2015No. 14-2756PublishedCited by 19 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SMITH, Circuit Judge.

Edwin James appeals his sentence of lifetime supervised release and certain conditions of supervised release imposed by the district court after James pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250, as is required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 16901-16991. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

I. Background

In 1979, James pleaded guilty in Washington state to one count of statutory rape in the first degree for having sexual intercourse with a four-year-old girl. Soon after his…

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