7.17 SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION
Following the decisions in Graham v. Florida 171 and Miller v. Alabama, 172 at least two courts have held that mandatorily imposing sex offender registration is also a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. 173 Although these cases both involved the mandatory registration of juvenile defendants still under the control of the juvenile courts, the logic of the argument—essentially that we cannot automatically impose lifetime adult...
