A trend in recent years has been for state legislatures to pass laws that require sex offenders who have served their sentences to register their address with the police and for the government to notify communities that a convicted sex offender is now their neighbor. What arguments would you make on behalf of a sex offender who committed the offense before the passage of the registration law?
What will be an ideal response?
Under the Fifth Amendment prohibition of Ex Post Facto Laws, a person should not be subjected to a criminal punishment or convicted of breaking a law if that law was not in place at the time of the commission of the act. Because the convicted sex offender committed his crime at a time when he/she could not have possibly been aware of the potential requirement to register upon release from prison, he/she should not be subjected to the requirements of this law.
However, the Supreme Court has already determined that sex offender registration is not a punishment that was contemplated by the Framers of the Constitution and upheld similar legislation in Alaska in 2003.
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