State v. Clark

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a defense of lack of knowledge is only good for the first offense
• finding that registration and notification requirements are collateral consequences of pleading guilty to a sex related offense
• actual notice triggers the requirement to register as a sex offender despite failure of the sentencing court to notify the defendant
• “Lack of notice of the duty to register constitutes a defense to the crime of knowingly failing to register as a sex offender—but only for the first such offense.”
• “Lack of notice of the duty to register constitutes a defense to the crime of knowingly failing to register as a sex offender — but only for the first such offense” because thereafter the arrest for failure to register serves as notice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Wilson
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2002-08-22· cited 37×
• State v. Olivera-Avila
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-12-23· cited 31×
• State v. McDermond
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2002-06-07· cited 25×
• In re B.G.M.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-08-30· cited 24×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-09-11· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Ramirez
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-05-10· cited 10×
• State v. Billington
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2008-10-21· cited 8×
• State v. Munds
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1996-09-17· cited 7×
• Matter of BGM
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1996-08-30
• State Of Washington v. Cory Tash
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2018-03-27
• State v. Luna
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2013-01-17