The Sixth Appellate District affirmed a judgment. The court held that prosecution of a convicted sex offender in state court for failure to register his new California addresses in June 2006 after he had been convicted under federal law for failure to register his September 2006 out-of-state address involved separate acts of failing to register and thus did not violate California double-jeopardy prohibitions.
Christopher Davis was charged with failing to update his sex-offender registration within five working days of changing his residence address in violation of former Penal Code §290(f)(1)(A) (now §290.013). Davis moved to dismiss the complaint. He argued that prosecution for failure to update his registration as a sex offender was barred on double jeopardy grounds because he had already been convicted in federal court of failure to register as a sex offender under 18 U.S.C. §2250 based on the same wrongful conduct.
