Supreme Court of California

Under Pen. Code section 290 (g)(2), which states that willful failure of a sex offender to update his/her registration is a felony, the willfulness element may not be negated by just forgetting to register.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/30/2004
• Published 08/30/2004

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard Such, San Francisco, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Jack Funk, Assistant Public Defender, for California Public Defenders Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Gerald A. Engler and Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorneys General, René A. Chacón, Laurence K. Sullivan, Ronald E. Niver, Stan Cross and Janet E. Neeley, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.