CHARLES v. STATE

No. S-12944.

326 P.3d 978 (2014)

Byron E. CHARLES, Petitioner, v. STATE of Alaska, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 25, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tracey Wollenberg , Assistant Public Defender, and Quinlan Steiner , Public Defender, Anchorage, for Petitioner.

Timothy W. Terrell , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Special Prosecutions & Appeals, Anchorage, and Michael C. Geraghty , Attorney General, Juneau, for Respondent.

Before: FABE, Chief Justice, WINFREE, STOWERS, and MAASSEN, Justices, and EASTAUGH, Senior Justice.


OPINION

EASTAUGH, Senior Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Does the 2008 holding in Doe v. State (Doe I)1 apply to Byron E. Charles, whose 2006 conviction for violating the Alaska Sex Offender Registration Act (ASORA) was still on direct review when he argued for the first time, in reliance on our then-recent Doe I opinion, that applying ASORA to him violated Alaska's ex post facto clause? We conclude that...

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