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Still Registering as a Sex Offender? Looking to Stop? This Three Part Series Will Discuss The Different Ways We Can Help You Get Off The Registration Rolls (Part 2)

By Walin & Klarich

Part II - Certificate of Rehabilitation Did you know that, if you are registering as a sex offender in California pursuant to Penal Code section 290, that you might be able to go back to court and get a judge to relieve you of your obligation to register without having to seek and obtain a full pardon from the governor? Our office has found that many judges, district attorneys, and other defense attorneys are not familiar with this loophole in California's sex offender registration statute. While judges and attorneys will inform defendants at the time of the plea and sentence that sex offender registration is a "lifetime" requirement, few will inform defendants that, in many cases, "lifetime" does not necessarily mean "for life." Penal Code section 290...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on July 18, 2008 (boomark / email).