California Court of Appeal

Trial court order imposing mandatory sex offender registration on defendant under Penal Code sec. 290 (c) based on his conviction for sexually penetrating a 13-year-old minor is reversed and remanded where mandating lifetime sex offender registration violates defendant's equal protection rights as a similarly situated offender convicted of unlawful sexual intercourse with a victim the same age would not face mandatory lifetime registration.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2009
• Published 05/15/2009

Judges

• McINTYRE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John Evan Edwards, San Diego, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Janet Neeley and Teresa Torreblanca, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.