United States v. Lunsford, No. 12-3616 (8th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseDefendant entered a conditional plea of guilty to a charge of failing to update his registration after he moved from Missouri to the Philippines under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), 18 U.S.C. 16911 et seq. On appeal, he challenged the district court's denial of his motion to dismiss the indictment. The court reversed, concluding that the text of SORNA did not extend registration requirements to defendant's situation where Missouri was not a "jurisdiction involved" after defendant changed his residence to somewhere in the Philippines and defendant was not required by the federal statute to update the Missouri registry.
Court Description: Criminal case - Criminal law. SORNA does not require an offender to update his registration when he moves out of the country, and the district court should have dismissed this indictment charging defendant with failure to update his registration in violation of SORNA.
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