Ravel Williams v. State of Mississippi

GRIFFIS, P.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Ravel Deon Williams filed a petition for relief from registration as a sex offender in Coahoma County Circuit Court. Williams argued the statute, which compels certain convicted felons to register as sex offenders, violated the Ex Post Facto Clause of the Mississippi Constitution. In the alternative, Williams argued he met one of the exemptions from registration as provided by statute, and did not have to register. The circuit court denied Williams’s petition, finding the statute did not violate the Constitution, and no exemption applied to Williams. We find…