Supreme Court of California

Penal Code section 290 requires showing that defendant actually knew of the requirement to register as a sex offender, but even though the court erred in failing to so instruct the jury, the error harmless because of evidence showing that defendant had knowledge.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2001
• Published 05/31/2001

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Richard Such and Kathleen Kahn, San Francisco, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson and David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald S. Matthias, Richard Rochman, Janet Neeley and Lisa H. Ashley Ott, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.