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SAMPLE WRITING SAMPLE COVER SHEET #2

WRITING SAMPLE

Serena Southerlyn

Box 208304

New Haven, CT 06520

(203) 436-8888

The attached writing sample is an excerpt from a brief submitted for the Morris Tyler Moot Court of

Appeals competition. The case involved a challenge to the Connecticut sex offender registration statute.

The

competition problem differed somewhat from the actual case then pending before the United States Supreme

Court, and competitors were not permitted to rely on materials submitted to the Court. The questions presented

for competition were:

Does Connecticut’s sex offender registration law implicate an offender’s liberty interest by listing

offenders in an undifferentiated registry and violate an offender’s due process rights by failing to afford

an offender a hearing on his current dangerousness before publishing true and accurate information about

him and his conviction history?

Does Connecticut’s sex offender registration law, on its face or as implemented, impose punishment for

purposes of the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States Constitution?

I represented the petitioner, the Connecticut Department of Public Safety. I chose the section of brief

addressing the Ex Post Facto Clause as my writing sample.

The first paragraph would also be the appropriate place to summarize any facts in the case necessary to understand

the argument, instead of including a lengthy statement of facts.

Yale Law Scho o l Career Develo pment Office

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