Ala. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 15-20A-18(E)

Changing or Reproducing Identification

(Adult)

The defendant is charged with changing or reproducing a driver license or

identification card as an adult sex offender.

A person commits the crime of changing or reproducing a driver license or

identification card as an adult sex offender if he/she is an adult sex offender and mutilates,

mars, changes, reproduces, alters, defaces, disfigures, or otherwise changes the form of

any driver license or identification card which is issued to the adult sex offender and which

bears 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 mutilated, marred, changed, reproduced, altered, defaced,

disfigured, or otherwise changed the form of any driver license or

identification card which was issued to the defendant and which bore a

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 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)]

It shall be prima facie evidence that the defendant has violated this section if

he/she had in his/her possession a driver license or identification card issued to him/her

by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency bearing any designation enabling law

enforcement officers to identify the licensee as a sex offender which had been mutilated,

marred, changed, reproduced, altered, defaced, disfigured, or otherwise changed. [15 -

20A-18(e)]

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 th at 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 def endant guilty of this

offense.