United States Fourth Circuit

District court's denial of petitioner's habeas petition and a motion for an injunction to prohibit the Parole Commission from requiring him to register as a sex offender and challenging the constitutionality of SORNA is affirmed where: 1) the probation officer acted within his discretion in imposing the registration requirement as SORNA lawfully imposes, as a matter of federal law, registration obligations directly on sex offenders, such as defendant; 2) petitioner is not relieved of the duty to register by any restriction in Maryland law or by Maryland's failure to implement SORNA; and 3) petitioner's Tenth Amendment challenge is rejected.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/13/2010
• Decided 07/15/2010
• Published 07/15/2010

Judges

• NIEMEYER, J.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paresh S. Patel, Larry David Adams