State v. Hawkins

I agree with my colleagues that the State's prosecution of Hawkins presents no ex post facto problem. Nevertheless, Hawkins could not lawfully be prosecuted under former AS 11.56.840 for failing to register as a sex offender.

AS 11.56.840(a)(1) declares that a person commits the crime of failing to register as a sex offender if the person "knowingly fails to ... register ... as required in AS 12.63.010". AS 12.63.010(a) contains three different registration deadlines for various categories of sex offenders, but none of these three deadlines applies to defendants like Hawkins who were…