Supreme Court of California

People v. Hofsheier, S124636

Subjecting a defendant, convicted of oral copulation with a 16-year-old girl, to the mandatory sex offender registration requirement of Penal Code section 290(a)(1)(A) would deny him the equal protection of the laws.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/06/2006
• Published 03/06/2006

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Paul Couenhoven, Santa Clara, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan, Moona Nandi, Eric D. Share and John H. Deist, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.