PETITION FOR REVIEW
(Justin Corliss vs Pennsylvania State Police)
In February of 2018 Representative Marsico, of Dauphin County, ignored the constitutional requirements of passing legislation and inserted an unedited registration scheme into an unrelated Bill so as to get something on the books to require people, formerly convicted of certain crimes, who already served their sentences, into an additionally punitive registration scheme. This bill created Subchapter I of the Sentencing Code and is of great concern for anyone who has already served their sentences as it results in a new, punitive scheme that retroactively requires effected people to report, have personal information broadcast to the public over the internet, and may require new consequences that amount to parole for crimes whose sentences have already been fully served, including tracking via global positioning systems.
This Petition for Review is premised on the learned decision in Com. v. Muniz, to apply the same law to this unedited bill and finding that it violates the same predicates found in Muniz to invalidate SORNA as it applies to former registrants. Initially the Attorney General has facetiously tried to construe the Petition with a challenge to the Butler case; however, this analogy is misplaced, Butler affects SORNA registrants, not directly, those who are unaffected by SORNA, which is the design of Subchapter I.
We encourage those affected to review this Petition and post any relevant comments as this proceeds through the Commonwealth Court. The objective is to expose deficiencies in this ill-advised legislation and to have the entire Subchapter I found to be vague, unconstitutional and void as enacted.
