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

Continuing Duty to Verify

(Adult)

The defendant is charged with failing to verify all required registration information

as an adult sex offender.

A person commits the crime of failing to verify all required registration information

as an adult sex offender if he/she is an adult sex offender and fails to appear in person to

verify all required registration information with local law enforcement in ea ch county in

which he/she resides, during his/her birth month and every 3 months thereafter,

regardless of the month of conviction, for the duration of his/her life.

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

elements:

(1) The defendant was an adult sex offender;

(2) The defendant failed to appear in person to verify all required registration

information during his/her birth month and every 3 months thereafter, [Insert Appropriate

Date(s)] with local law enforcement in each county in which he/she resides; (AND)

(3) 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)]

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 description of the locations

where the person is stationed regularl y, 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 i s 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.