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Maine Supreme Judicial Court Reinstates Challenge to Maine SORNA
Loaded on July 15, 2011
by Matthew Clarke
By Matt Clarke
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Sex Offender Registration,
Guilty Pleas,
Ex Post Facto,
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
Location:
Maine.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has reversed the dismissal of a challenge to the Maine Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), 34-A M.R.S. §§ 11201-11256.
John Doe is the pseudonym of a person convicted after 1982 and before 1986 of a sex offense against a family …
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