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131189P.pdf 09/02/2014 United States v. James Coppock
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 13-1189
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha
[PUBLISHED] [[Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. In light of the Supreme Court's recent
decision in United States v. Comstock, 560 U.S. 126 (2010) and United
States v. Kebodeaux, 133 S. Ct. 2496 (2013), defendant's argument that his
conviction under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2250(a) for failure to register as a sex
offender is unconstitutional must be rejected; the decision here applies
only to a sex offender who - at the time the registration requirements
came into effect - was under federal parole supervision based upon a
conviction under federal law, and thus remained in a "special relationship
with the federal government."