United States of America v. Lindon Roy Knutson

United States Court of Appeals
For the Eighth Circuit
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No. 12-2801
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United States of America
lllllllllllllllllllll Plaintiff - Appellee
v.
Lindon Roy Knutson
lllllllllllllllllllll Defendant - Appellant
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Appeal from United States District Court
for the District of Minnesota - St. Paul
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Submitted: July 18, 2013
Filed: August 7, 2013
[Unpublished]
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Before GRUENDER, BENTON, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.
After the district court denied his motion to dismiss the indictment, Lindon1
Roy Knutson conditionally pled guilty to failure to register as a sex offender, in
violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2250(a), and 42 U.S.C. §§ 16911, 16913. In his motion to
The Honorable Donovan W. Frank, United States District Judge for the1
District of Minnesota.

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dismiss, Knutson challenged the constitutionality of the Sex Offender Registration
and Notification Act (SORNA) – specifically, 42 U.S.C. § 16913(d) – under the non-
delegation doctrine. Earlier, this court had remanded Knutson’s case to reconsider
his motion in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Reynolds v. United States, 565
U.S. ___ , 132 S. Ct. 975 (2012). On remand, the district court again denied the
motion to dismiss. In this appeal, Knutson argues that the district court erred. To the
contrary, as decided in United States v. Kuehl, 706 F. 3d 917, 920 (8th Cir. 2013),
SORNA does not violate the non-delegation doctrine.
The judgment is affirmed.
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