Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

A friend of mine went to jail almost 40 yrs ago after an ex girlfriend accused him of abusing her after he broke up with her. well 20+ yrs later new laws came into effect and he was told that he would be registered as a sex affender for the rest of his life. He did what was asked no problem. he ended up going back to prison for a stolen property charge and paroled 5+ yrs ago. he checked in like required and registered his address. they said ok and he left. he has had no problems with any law enforcement and cleared parol. until last week when he was arrested for a noncompliance of failing to report on his birthday which was july and we had just literally moved not 3 weeks ago and neither one of us even thought about updating his address to the new house casue our mail was still going to be going to the old address which was less then 1 mile away. Riverside county DA is trying to give him some way out amount of time and is trying to "double him up" not sure what that means. his public defender said because he does have a strike she will try for the low term but said he will be going back to prison?? seriouisly? is there any advice I can get as to maybe helping his public defender with a lot case law or something he can ask his attorney to file for like that new prop 45 or something?

Asked on 9/05/15, 4:37 pm

Joe Dane Law Office of Joe Dane

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An old strike changes everything.. So does sex offender registration. That "new law" is Prop 47, but it excludes sex offenders from any reduction.

His lawyer will have to fight this the best they can with a Romero motion.

Answered on 9/05/15, 6:03 pm

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