Byline: Derek Hawkins
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Brian Hope, et al., v. Commissioner of Indiana Department of Correction, et al.,
Case No.: 19-2523
Officials: ST. EVE, Circuit Judge.
Focus: Equal Protection Claim Sex Offender Registration Act
Indiana's Sex Offender Registration Act ("SORA") imposes registration requirements and restrictions on sex offenders who reside, work, or study in the State. Ind. Code 11-8-8-1 et seq. By virtue of the State supreme court's construction of the Indiana Constitution, Indiana's Ex Post Facto Clause prohibits retroactive application of SORA to offenders convicted before its enactment unless the marginal effects of doing so would not be punitive. Wallace v. State, 905 N.E.2d 371...
