Court Expands Eligibility for Certificates of Rehabilitation [with CORRECTION]

CORRECTION: The information in the article below is based upon a court document from 2014 that was mistakenly identified as a 2015 appellate court decision. Regrettably, this year’s decision did not expand eligibility, but instead eliminated eligibility for many individuals to apply for a Certificate of Rehabilitation.

A California Court of Appeal issued a decision this week that expands eligibility for registrants to apply for a certificate of rehabilitation. The decision, People v. Tirey, states that a registrant who was convicted of PC 288(a) and who completed parole 13 years ago is eligible to apply for a certificate.

“This is an important decision for many registrants,” stated attorney and CA RSOL vice president Chance Oberstein. “It will significantly expand the number of registrants who can apply for a certificate of rehabilitation.”

In this case, the appellate court clarified that it was not making a decision whether Tirey would obtain a certificate. Instead, that decision is to be made by a trial court.

According to the Court, equal protection principles were violated when Tirey was declared ineligible to apply for a certificate. These principles have the possibility of being applied to convictions for similar sex offenses such as PC 288 and 288.5.

In its decision, the Court rejected all arguments offered by the Attorney General who had requested a rehearing of the original case.

“A certificate of rehabilitation currently is the only realistic method for registered citizens to be removed from the sex offender registry,” stated Oberstein.

The decision to grant a certificate of rehabilitation is a discretionary decision by a state judge who faces re-election. In order to maximize the possibility of obtaining a certificate, registrants must provide the court with a psychological evaluation as well as letters of support.

Judge Thompson disagreed with the court’s ruling and in his dissent stated that the court’s decision “will allow thousands of serious sex offenders to escape their lifetime parole and sex offender registration obligations.”

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Donald hate SOs. No help there.

It mentioned the article is old…So finally can someone with 288a get rehab eligibility or not?!!!!

ok here’s my dollar ($$) saving question: I plan to marry a foreign national. I understand that regardless of where I’m from, CA. in this case, AWA applies in that i must prove beyond a reasonable doubt I’m not a risk to my future wife, at this point.

Now there seems to me to be a couple, maybe more, hurdles I could clean up at one time.

1) to whatever i must do to be rehabiltated to get off registry

2) to prove beyond a reasonable doubt I am not a risk certainly requires an evaluation??

Then probably 🙁 million dollar question is can I accomplish both at the same time???

so to attorneys with a for hire availability, please advise and contact; also anecdotal comments welcome!!

Good Luck lamented “First off, did you know that John Walsh, the father of Adam who pushed through the AWA screwed a 16 year old when he was in his 20s? Yup, the father of the AWA act should be a sex offender.”

Not only that, but so should fellow hypocrite Mark Foley, author of SORNA/AWA.