P. v. Holmes
A jury convicted defendant of willful failure to register as a sex offender within five working days of his birthday based in part upon counsel’s stipulation that he had been “convicted of a violation of Penal Code section 243.4, Sexual Battery,†a registerable offense. Defendant claims that he was prejudiced by the failure of his attorney to offer a stipulation that he was convicted of a felony requiring annual registration within five days of his birthday.
We do not understand in what manner defendant was prejudiced by the different forms of stipulation since he admitted that he was required to register and he makes no claim that the form of the stipulation affected his failure to register. That left only the claim that the failure to register was not willful. We disagree and shall affirm the judgment.
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