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Smith v. Doe, 538 U.S. 84, 19 (2003)

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SMITH v. DOE

Ginsburg, J., dissenting

to label him a "Registered Sex Offender" for the rest of his life.

Satisfied that the Act is ambiguous in intent and punitive in effect, I would hold its retroactive application incompatible with the Ex Post Facto Clause, and would therefore affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals.

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