United States v. Robert Jernberg

MEMORANDUM

Robert F. Jernberg appeals from the district court’s imposition of a special condition of supervised release requiring him to comply with the sex offender registration requirements of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA”), 42 U.S.C. § 16913 . We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

Jernberg contends that the district court abused its discretion by imposing the registration condition because Congress did not have the power to enact SORNA’s registration requirements. This argument is foreclosed by recent decisions of the Supreme Court and our court. See United States v. Kebodeaux, — U.S.-,-, 133 S.Ct. 2496, 2500 , 186 L.Ed.2d 540 (2013) (concluding that “the Necessary and Proper Clause grants Congress adequate power to enact SORNA and to apply it” to a defendant convicted of a federal sex crime who was subject to federal sex offender registration requirements at the time of SORNA’s enactment in 2006); United States v. Elk Shoulder, 738 F.3d 948, 959 (9th Cir.2013), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 134 S.Ct. 1920 , 188 L.Ed.2d 944 (2014) (same). Accordingly, we reject Jernberg’s challenge to the mandatory registration condition. See 18…