State v. Hawkins

OPINION

COATS, Chief Judge.

Harold W. Hawkins was charged with failing to register as a sex offender under the Alaska Sex Offender Registration Act (ASO-RA).1 Hawkins moved to dismiss, asserting a number of grounds. Magistrate Bradley N. Gater rejected all of Hawking's grounds but one; the magistrate granted Hawking's motion to dismiss on the ground that ASORA violated the ex post facto clause of the federal constitution because ASORA, on its face, required sex offenders to register nearly forty days before ASORA was actually passed. The state appeals, arguing that failure to register under…