United States v. Talkington

BAKER, Chief Judge,

with whom OHLSON, Judge, joins (concurring in the result):

Like the consequence of deportation, sex offender registration is not a criminal sanction, but it is a particularly severe penalty.... Moreover, sex offender registration is intimately related to the criminal process. The automatic result of sex offender registration for certain defendants makes it difficult to divorce the penalty from the conviction.

United States v. Riley, 72 M.J. 115, 120-21 (C.A.A.F.2013) (internal quotation marks omitted). Appendix 4 to Enclosure 2 of Department of Defense Instruction 1325.071…