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46 Preview U.S. Sup. Ct. Cas. 1 (2018-2019)

handle is hein.journals/prvw46 and id is 1 raw text is: Previewing the Court's Entire October Calenar of Cases, including. Gundy v. United States In 2005. Herman Avery Gundy pled guilty in Maryland to sexual assault of a minor. After he served his sentence in Maqland, Gundy was transferred by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to New York to serve a related federal sentence. After release, he was arrested and convicted of failure to register as a sex offender under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). He argued that SORNA. which was enacted in 2006 (after his conviction), could not constitutionally apply to him, because the Act delegated too much authority to the attorney general to determine whether it applied to pre-Act offenders. Madison v Alabama Vernon Madison was convicted of murdering a police officer and sentenced to death. While he was in prison, he suffered several strokes, which left him with significant cognitive impairnents, including dementia. As a result, he curTenfly cannot remember committing the crime. The Court imust now deteriine whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits a state from executing a person whose medical condition prevents him from remembering his conviction. A-:-: Divisiofo, &Sw5mWAN wLnASGCMnN :: Pblic Edubcation