United States Ninth Circuit

Individual who pled guilty to possessing electronic child porn under federal statute does not need to register as a sex offender under California Penal Code 290 when, at the time he committed his offense, it was not an enumerated crime under California law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2000
• Decided 04/19/2001
• Published 04/19/2001

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge:, Before:  GOODWIN, HUG, and PREGERSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patricia Donahue, Assistant United States Attorney, Santa Ana, California (argued) and Stephen G. Wolf, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California (brief)., Alan Rubin, Epstein, Adelson & Rubin, Los Angeles, California (brief and argued) and George Bird, Bird & Bird, Torrance, California, for the appellant.