United States v. Carel, Jr., No. 10-1095 (10th Cir. 2011)
Annotate this CaseIn 2010, Defendant-Appellant Franklin Carel, Jr. was convicted of knowingly failing to update his sex offender registration as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). On appeal,he contended that SORNA's sex offender registration provision, 42 U.S.C. 16913, is unconstitutional. Upon careful consideration of Defendant's appellate brief before the Tenth Circuit, the Court held that as applied to Defendant as a federal sex offender on supervised release, section 16913 is a constitutional exercise of Congress’s authority under the Necessary and Proper Clause.
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