In re WARREN GRANARD WATFORD
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-1698443-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> <html ><br /> <head><br /> <title>In re WARREN GRANARD WATFORD</title><br /> </head><br /> <body><br /> <div><br /> <br/><b >In re WARREN GRANARD </b><b<br /> >WATFORD</b><b<br /> ></b><br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>Filed 7/9/10<br /> <br/><u> </u><br /> <br/><u> </u><br /> <br/><u> </u><br /> <br/><u> </u><br /> <br/><u> </u><br /> <br/><u>CERTIFIED</u><br /> <u>FOR</u> <u>PUBLICATION</u><br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>IN THE COURT OF<br /> APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA<br /> <br/>THIRD APPELLATE<br /> DISTRICT<br /> <br/>(Placer)<br /> <br/>----<br /> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0<br /> ><br /> <tr ><br /> <td width=394 valign=top ><br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>In re WARREN GRANARD WATFORD<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> on Habeas Corpus.<br /> <br/> <br /> </td><br /> <td width=230 valign=top ><br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>C062550<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>(Super.<br /> Ct. No. 62077364)<br /> <br/> <br /> </td><br /> </tr><br /> </table><br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> ORIGINAL<br /> PROCEEDINGS. Writ of Habeas Corpus. Petition denied and order to show case<br /> discharged. Superior<br /> Court of Placer<br /> County, Mark S. Curry, Judge.<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> Linda<br /> M. Leavitt, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Petitioner.<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> Edmund<br /> G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney<br /> General, Charles A. French and Michael A. Canzoneri, Deputy Attorneys General,<br /> for Respondent.<br /> <br/> <br /> <br/> <br /> <br/>Petitioner<br /> Warren Granard Watford petitions for a writ of habeas corpus directing the Placer<br /> County Superior Court to vacate its judgment of conviction for failing to<br /> register as a sex offender because the predicate sex offense has been vacated<br /> and will not be retried. Petitioner<br /> asserts the predicate offense is now void <i >ab<br /> initio</i>, and thus he was never required to register and cannot be held for<br /> failing to register.<br /> <br/>We disagree<br /> and deny the petition.<br /> <br/>FACTS<br /> <br/>In 1986,<br /> petitioner was convicted in Suffolk County, Massachusetts,<br /> of a sex offense involving a minor. <br /> <br/>Nearly 22<br /> years later, on February 6, 2008, petitioner was arrested in Lincoln,<br /> California, and charged with failing to register as a sex offender as required<br /> under Penal Code sections 290 and 290.005.[1] The evidence at trial indicated petitioner<br /> had arrived in California from Massachusetts<br /> in December 2007, and he had not registered with local authorities since his<br /> arrival.<br /> <br/>In April<br /> 2008, a Placer County<br /> jury convicted petitioner of failing to<br /> register as a sex offender. The<br /> trial court also found true an allegation that petitioner was convicted of<br /> armed robbery in Massachusetts in<br /> 1992, a serious felony for purposes of the â€