United States Ninth Circuit

A habeas petitioner failed to show that California's sex-offender registration statute is so punitive either in purpose or effect as to negate the state's intention to deem it civil, thus his ex post facto claim must fail.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/09/2003
• Decided 10/08/2003
• Published 10/08/2003

Judges

• Before GRABER, WARDLAW, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Rothschild and M. Bradley Wishek, Rothschild, Wishek & Sands, Sacramento, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Janet E. Neeley, Deputy Attorney General, State of California, Sacramento, CA, for the respondent-appellee.