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

Failing to Report Travel from County

(Adult)

The defendant is charged with failing to report travel away from his/her county of

residence for 3 or more days as an adult sex offender.

A person commits the crime of failing to report travel away from his/her county of

residence for 3 or more days as an adult sex offender if he/she is an adult sex offender

who, prior to temporarily leaving from his/her county of residence for a period of 3 or more

consecutive days, fails to report such information in person immediately prior to leaving

his/her county of residence for such travel to the sheriff in each county of residence.

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 temporarily left from his/her county of residence for a period

of 3 or more consecutive days;

(3) The defendant failed to report such information in person immediately prior

to leaving his/her county of residence for such travel to the sheriff in each

county of residence; (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)]

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 regularly, day or night, including a ny 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)]

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

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.