← Key Precedents

Smith v. Doe

·2003

What the Court Decided

The Court held that Alaska's sex offender registration and notification law was non-punitive and therefore did not violate the Ex Post Facto Clause when applied retroactively.

Full entry not yet generated. Run npm run enrich-precedents to add it.

Cited In

Ellingburg v. United States

2025 Term · 24-482

Cited to distinguish sex offender registration requirements, which the Court held were not punishment at all, from MVRA restitution which is explicitly labeled a penalty and imposed as part of a sentence.