AL · jury_instructions
Ala. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 15-20A-18(D)
Failing to Relinquish Identification (Adult)
Failing to Relinquish Identification
(Adult)
The defendant is charged with failing to relinquish a driver license or identification
card upon obtaining a driver license or identification card as an adult sex offender bearing
a designation that enables law enforcement officers to identify the licensee as a sex
offender.
A person commits the crime of failing to relinquish a driver license or identification
card upon obtaining a driver license or identification card as an adult sex offender bearing
a designation that enables law enforcement officers to identify the licensee as a sex
offender if he/she is an adult sex offender and, upon obtaining or renewing a driver license
or identification card bearing a designation that enables law enforcement officers to
identify the licensee as a sex offender, he/she fails to relinquish to the Alabama State
Law Enforcement Agenc y any driver license or identification card previously issued to
him/her which does not bear any designation enabling law enforcement officers to identify
the licensee as a sex offender.
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, upon obtaining or renewing a driver license or identification
card bearing a designation that enables law enforcement officers to identify
the licensee as a sex offender, fails to relinquish to the Alabama State Law
Enforcement Agency any driver license or identification card previously
issued to him/her which does not bear any designation enabling law
enforcement officers to identify the licensee as a sex offender; (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 fed eral or military tribunal, including a court martial conducted by the
Armed Forces of the United 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 minimum 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 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 elemen ts of the offense, then you cannot find the def endant guilty of this
offense.
History
[Approved 9-8-15.]
Provenance
- Source
- judicial.alabama.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- 2026-08-20
- Content hash
4923708e613b2e715fb7c287e935a006065fb7af40b7eb9449dc3cf1a4f6a73f
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