P. v. Tavis
The trial court denied appellant Douglas Gerald Taviss petition for writ of coram nobis. Tavis sought to vacate his plea of no contest to two counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child, claiming that he was misadvised about the lifetime sex offender registration requirement when he entered that plea. (Pen. Code, 288, 290; former 290.1.) On appeal, he contends that the trial court abused its discretion in denying his petition when it ruled that he had not exercised due diligence in filing his petition in a timely manner. Tavis urges us to find that this lack of diligence was the fault of his counsel and that he himself was diligent once he was properly advised of the possibility of obtaining relief by means of a writ of error coram nobis. Court affirm the judgment.
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