Meyers v. Roy, et al, No. 12-1319 (8th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff, a person required to register as a "predatory offender" in Minnesota, brought this action against two state officials, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1983, asserting that the enforcement of Minnesota's predatory offender registration statute, Minn. Stat. 243.166, violated his constitutional rights to due process. Plaintiff litigated the same procedural due process claims that he raised on this appeal in his direct appeal from the 2009 conviction for a registration offense. Therefore, plaintiff was precluded from litigating those points in this federal action. Plaintiff also litigated in the 2009 state-court appeal his contention that the registration statute violated substantive due process and, therefore, he was precluded from relitigating in this federal action whether the predatory registration statute had a rational basis. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
Court Description: Civil case - Civil rights. Meyers litigated the same procedural due process claims raised in this Section 1983 action in his direct appeal from his 2009 conviction for failing to register under Minnesota's predatory sex offender statute, and he is precluded from relitigating the claims in federal court; similarly he is precluded from litigating a claim that the registration statute violates substantive due process.
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