United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's conviction for failure to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Notification and Registration Act (SORNA) is affirmed where an individual's obligation to register is not dependent on a state's implementation of SORNA, and thus the fact that Washington had not implemented SORNA at the time of defendant's sexual abuse of a minor conviction was irrelevant.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/02/2009
• Decided 08/25/2009
• Published 08/25/2009

Judges

• THOMPSON, Senior Circuit Judge:, Before: WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., DAVID R. THOMPSON, and CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Rebecca Louise Pennell, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Yakima, WA, for the defendant-appellant., Alexander C. Ekstrom, Assistant United States Attorney, Yakima, WA, for the plaintiff-appellee.