State v. Bostic

MeHUGH J.:

Before this Court are two certified questions from the Circuit Court of Pleasants County, West Virginia, both of which involve constitutional challenges to the application of certain provisions of the 1999 amendments to West Virginia’s Sex Offender Registration Act, West Virginia Code § 15-12-1 et seq., which repealed the former statute found in chapter 61, article 8F of the Code of West Virginia, the statute in effect when Defendant entered his guilty plea.1

The first certified question posits whether state and federal constitutional prohibitions against the impairment of existing…