United States Supreme Court

In a prosecution for failure to register as a sex offender under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act in which the Third Circuit concluded that the Act’s registration requirements applied to pre-Act offenders even in the absence of a rule by the Attorney General, judgment is reversed, as the Act’s registration requirements do not apply to pre-Act offenders until the Attorney General so specifies, so that whether an interim rule promulgated by the Attorney General set forth a valid specification was a relevant issue.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/23/2012
• Published 01/23/2012

Judges

• Breyer

Court

• United States Supreme Court

Counsel