U.S. v. COLLINS

No. 14-4019.

773 F.3d 25 (2014)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dwaine Allen COLLINS, a/k/a Dwaine Allen Cline, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: December 8, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jonathan D. Byrne , Office of the Federal Public Defender, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellant. Jennifer Rada Herrald , Office of the United States Attorney, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Brian J. Kornbrath , Acting Federal Public Defender, Lex A. Coleman , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellant. R. Booth Goodwin, II , United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Charleston, West Virginia, for Appellee.

Affirmed in part; vacated and remanded in part by published opinion. Judge FLOYD wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILKINSON and Judge MOTZ joined.


Dwaine Allen Collins was convicted of knowingly failing to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). The district court sentenced Collins to 30 months' imprisonment and ten years of supervised release. On this direct appeal, Collins contests his conviction primarily on the...

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