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Smith v. Doe, No. 01-729 (U.S. Supreme Court) (538 U.S. 84; 123 S.Ct. 1140) (March 5, 2003) (Justice Kennedy)

Loaded on Feb. 1, 2003 published in Punch and Jurists February 17, 2003
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Megan's Laws.

Here by a vote of 6-to-3, the Court rejected a claim that the retroactive features of Alaska's Sex Offender Registration Act (a Megan’s law) violated the Ex Post Facto Clause - on the grounds that the Act was not punishment but a civil, nonpunitive scheme.

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