Challenge to Tribal Implementation of SORNA Rejected

The case is United States v. Lafferty, out of the District of South Dakota. The defendant was convicted in Indian Country of a sex crime, and now argues that since the Rosebud Sioux Tribe allegedly has not implemented its sex offender registry system, he should be let off the hook for failing to register. Not so, says the court.

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