Commonwealth v. Lee

OPINION

Justice BAER.

I. Introduction

In Commonwealth v. Gomer Williams, 574 Pa. 487, 832 A.2d 962 (2003) (hereinafter G. Williams), this Court considered and rejected several constitutional challenges to Pennsylvania’s Registration of Sexual Offenders Act, Act of May 10, 2000, P.L. 74, No. 18, as amended, 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9791, et seq. (Megan’s Law II). 1 Specifically, we held that the registration, notification, and counseling (RNC) requirements that attach, under Megan’s Law II, to offenders deemed Sexually Violent Predators (SVP) are not punitive. 2 Because we found these provisions to be…