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STATE v. LETALIEN

Docket: And-08-358.

985 A.2d 4 (2009)

2009 ME 130

STATE of Maine v. Eric S. LETALIEN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: December 22, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet T. Mills, Attorney General, Norman R. Croteau, District Attorney, Paul Stern, Dep. Atty. Gen. (orally), Laura Yustak Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ronald W. Lupton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Patricia Reynolds Regan, Asst. Dist. Atty., Augusta, ME, for the State of Maine.

David M. Sanders, Esq. (orally), Livermore Falls, ME, for Eric S. Letalien.

Ronald W. Schneider, Jr., Esq., Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, Portland, ME, Zachary L. Heiden, Esq., Maine Civil Liberties Union, Portland, ME, for amicus curiae Maine Civil Liberties Union.

Kelly A. Ayotte, Attorney General, New Hampshire Department of Justice, Concord, NH, for amici curiae States of New Hampshire, Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Nevada.

Gregory G. Katsas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jonathan F. Cohn, Dep. Asst. Atty. Gen., Mark B. Stern, Esq., Samantha L. Chaifetz, Esq., United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae United States.

Concurring: SILVER, J.

LEVY, J.

[¶ 1] The State of Maine appeals from a judgment dismissing a criminal complaint charging Eric S. Letalien with failure to comply with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act of 1999 (SORNA of 1999) (Class D), 34-A M.R.S. § 11227(1) (2008). The District Court (Lewiston, Stanfill, J.) concluded that the retroactive application of SORNA of 1999, as applied to Letalien, violates the prohibition against ex post facto laws contained...

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