United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's conviction for failing to register in accordance with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) is affirmed where: 1) sex offenders with pre-SORNA convictions, like defendant, had a duty to register even if the jurisdiction in which the offense occurred had not implemented SORNA; 2) defendant's guilty plea waived his right to claim that he was physically unable to register under SORNA; and 3) defendant had adequate notice of his duty to register.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/05/2009
• Published 11/05/2009

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA, Chief Judge, and BIRCH and SILER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kristen Gartman Rogers, Peter J. Madden and Carlos Alfredo Williams, Fed. Pub. Defenders, Mobile, AL, for Brown., David Andrew Sigler, Steven E. Butler, Mobile, AL, for U.S.