David L. Meador v. Pat Branson

MELLOY, Circuit Judge.

David Meador appeals from the district court’s 1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AED-PA), 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He argues that the decision of the North Dakota Supreme Court, interpreting the state’s sex offender registration statute to apply to sex offenders even when they have no permanent residential or mailing address, is an unforeseen and retroactive expansion of statutory language. We affirm the district court’s denial of that claim, holding that the state’s interpretation of its statute as…