Ammons v. State
Annotate this CaseIn 1998, Appellant committed child molesting in Indiana. Appellant was released in 2006 and completed parole the next year. In 2009, Appellant moved to Iowa, where he was subject to a registration requirement. When Appellant moved back to Indiana in 2013, the State notified him that he was required to register as a sex offender. Appellant sought removal from the registry. The trial court denied the motion. On appeal, Appellant argued that because he committed his offense six years prior to the passage of Indiana’s Sex Offender Registry Act (SORA), application of SORA to him violated the Ex Post Facto Clause of the Indiana Constitution. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that because Appellant was already under an obligation to register in another jurisdiction and Ind. Code 11-8-8-5(b)(1) and -19(f) do not impose any additional punishment on him, there was no ex post facto violation.
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