United States Eleventh Circuit

Defendant's conviction for failure to register as a sex offender as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) is affirmed where: 1) because Alabama had not implemented SORNA's requirements into its registry program during the time period charged in the indictment, Alabama did not have a duty to notify defendant of his duty to register; and 2) 18 U.S.C. section 2250(a) did not require that defendant specifically know that he was violating SORNA, but only that he "knowingly" violated a legal registration requirement upon relocating.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/15/2009
• Published 12/15/2009

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before CARNES, HULL and MARCUS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elsie Mae Miller, Frederick W. Tiernann, Kristen Gartman Rogers, Fed. Pub. Defenders, Mobile, AL, for Griffey., David Andrew Sigler, Steven E. Butler, Mobile, AL, for U.S.