Doe v. Williams
Annotate this CasePlaintiffs were sex offenders who were all initially required to register as sex offenders under Maine's Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) of 1999. Some Plaintiffs were later relieved of the registration requirement, but others remained on the registry and had viable claims. Plaintiffs filed actions against several State defendants, alleging, among other things, that SORNA of 1999 was an unconstitutional ex post facto law. The trial court granted the State defendants' motion for summary judgment, concluding that the cases of the Plaintiffs who successfully petitioned to be relieved from the duty to register were moot and that SORNA of 1999 as amended after State v. Letalien was constitutional. The Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's decision that SORNA of 1999 as amended following the Court's decision in Letalien did not violate the constitutional rights of the litigants.
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