Ala. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 15-20A-10(E)

Failing to Update upon Changing Any Required Registration Information

(Adult)

The defendant is charged with failing to update local law enforcement upon

changing any required registration information as an adult sex offender.

A person commits the crime of failing to update local law enforcement upon

changing any required registration information as an adult sex offender, if he/she is an

adult sex offender and, upon changing any required registration information, he/she fails

to immediately appear in person to update the information with local law enforcement in

each county in which he/she resides.

To convict, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt each of the following

elements:

(1) The defendant was an adult sex offender;

(2) Required registration information was changed:

[Read all appropriate]:

a. Name, including any aliases, nicknames, ethnic, or tribal names;

b. Date of birth;

c. Social Security number;

d. Address of each residence;

e. Name and address of any school he/she attends or will attend;

f. Name and address of any employer where he/she works or will work,

including any transient or day laborer information;

g. The license plate number, registration number or identif ier,

description, and permanent or frequent location where all vehicles

are kept for any vehicle used for work or personal use, including land

vehicles, aircraft, and watercraft;

h. Any telephone number used, including land line and cell phone

numbers;

i. Any email addresses or instant message address or identifiers used,

including any designations or monikers used for self-identification in

Internet communications or postings;

j. A current photograph;

k. A physical description including physical appearance , physical

characteristics, and identifying marks such as scars and tattoos;

l. Fingerprints and palm prints;

m. A DNA sample;

n. A photocopy of the valid driver license or identification card;

o. A photocopy of any and all passport and immigration documents;

p. Any professional licensing information that authorizes him/her to

engage in an occupation or carry out a trade or business;

q. A full criminal history, including dates of all arrests and convictions,

status of parole, probation, or supervised release, registration status,

and outstanding arrest warrants;

r. A list of any and all Internet service providers used by the sex

offender; (OR)

s. Any other information deemed necessary by the Secretary of the

Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency; (AND)

(3) The defendant failed to immediately appear in person and update the

information with local law enforcement in each county in which he/she

resides; (AND)

(4) The defendant did so knowingly.

An adult sex offender is a person convicted of a sex offense. [15-20A-4(1)]

A sex offense includes any of the following offenses: [Insert all appropriate from

15-20A-5].

A conviction is a verdict or finding of guilt as the result of a trial, a plea of guilty, a

plea of nolo contendere, or an Alford plea regardless of whether adjudication was

withheld. Conviction includes, but is not limited to, a conviction in a United States territory,

a conviction in a federal or military tribunal, including a court martial conducted by the

Armed Forces of the Uni ted States, a conviction for an offense committed on an Indian

reservation or other federal property, a conviction in any state of the United States or a

conviction in a foreign country if the foreign country's judicial system is such that it

satisfies min imum due process set forth in the guidelines under Section 111(5)(B) of

Public Law 109 -248. Cases on appeal are deemed convictions until reversed or

overturned. [15-20A-4(4)]

Required registration information is any information required pursuant to 15 -20A-

7. [15-20A-4(19)]

Immediately is within three business days. [15-20A-4(10)]

Local law enforcement is the sheriff of the county and the chief of police if the

location subject to registration is within the corporate limits of any municipality. [15-20A-

4(13)]

A residence is each fixed residence or other place where a person resides, sleeps,

or habitually lives or will reside, sleep, or habitually live. If a person does not reside, sleep,

or habitually live in a fixed residence, residence means a descript ion of the locations

where the person is stationed regularly, day or night, including any mobile or transitory

living quarters or locations that have no specific mailing or street address. Residence

shall be construed to refer to the places where a person resides, sleeps, habitually lives,

or is stationed with regularity, regardless of whether the person declares or characterizes

such place as a residence. [15-20A-4(20)]

A fixed residence is a building or structure, having a physical address or street

number, that adequately provides shelter at which a person resides. [15-20A-4(6)]

Habitually lives is where a person lives with some regularity on an intermittent or

temporary basis. [15-20A-4(7)]

A person acts knowingly with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described

by a statute defining an offense he/she is aware that his/her conduct is of that nature or

that the circumstance exists. [13A-2-2(2)]

If you find from the evidence that the State has proved beyond a reasonable doubt

each of the elements of the offense, then you shall find the defendant guilty of this offense.

If you find that the State has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt any one

or more of the elements of the offense, then you cannot find the defendant guilty of this

offense.