Opinion ID: 2978532
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Text: SORNA requires the Attorney General to issue regulations specifying its application before a sex offender convicted before its enactment may be subjected to criminal prosecution for failure to keep his registration current. Because the Attorney General did not issue such a regulation in compliance with the notice and comment and publication requirements of the APA within the time period charged in Cain’s indictment, the indictment must be dismissed. We therefore vacate Cain’s conviction and remand to the district court with instructions to grant the motion to dismiss the indictment. 7 We take no position on whether the same would be true for a defendant who failed to register during a period more than thirty days after publication of the regulation. No. 07-4535 United States v. Cain Page 25 __________________ DISSENT __________________