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Fourth Circuit: Sex Offender Registration Not "Custody" for Section 2254 Jurisdiction
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2013, page 22
Fourth Circuit: Sex Offender Registration Not "Custody" for Section 2254 Jurisdiction
Filed under:
Sex Offender Registration,
Sentencing,
Habeas Corpus,
Pardons/Clemency.
Location:
Virginia.
On August 15, 2012, the Fourth Circuit held that sex offender registration requirements do not amount to being "in custody" for purposes of invoking federal habeas corpus jurisdiction.
Eric C. Wilson was one of four young Navy sailors, dubbed ...
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