California Court of Appeal

Trial court's denial of defendant's motion to vacate his obligation to register as a sex offender, based on his 1987 conviction for oral copulation with a minor, is reversed as, the registration requirement violates his right to equal protection by treating two groups of similarly situated offenders differently by mandating registration by one but not the other without any rational basis.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/23/2010
• Published 02/23/2010

Judges

• MIHARA, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John F. Schuck, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edmund G. Brown, Jr. Attorney General of the State of California, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Stan Helfman, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Arthur P. Beever Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.