United States v. Coleman, No. 10-5283 (6th Cir. 2012)
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In 2002, defendant was convicted of sexual battery, requiring him to register as a sex offender under Ohio law. Three days before he was released from prison, in 2005, he signed a notice acknowledging his duty to register personally in each county in Ohio, or any other state where he resided, upon five days of arriving there. He did not register in Ohio. Some time before the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, 18 U.S.C. 2250, went into effect, he moved permanently to Kentucky and did not register. He made sporadic trips from Kentucky to West Virginia, including several after SORNA became effective. In 2009 he was arrested for parole violation. He entered a conditional plea to violation of SORNA. The Sixth Circuit affirmed, rejecting challenges to SORNA as constituting an ex post facto law and invalid exercise of Congress's powers under the Commerce Clause.
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