People v. Adams CA4/1

I.

INTRODUCTION

Defendant Ronnie Williams Adams appeals from a judgment following his plea of

guilty to one count of failing to register as a sex offender, and his admission that he has

suffered four prior strike convictions.

II.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Adams was convicted on June 13, 1984 of two offenses that required lifetime

registration as a sex offender.1 On March 27, 2013, San Diego police officer Danielle

Spilker-Wilson assisted Adams in filling out police form No. 8102, the form for sex

registrants. Adams registered himself as a "transient" on the form. After checking the

databases, Officer Spilker-Wilson determined that Adams had been registering as a

transient from June 29, 2010 through 2013.

Adams did not seem to fit the profile of a transient. Adams had listed Kaiser

Permanente as his employer. Officer Spilker-Wilson contacted Kaiser Permanente

regarding Adams's address. According to Adams's personnel file, he had listed his

address as 9060 Gramercy Drive, No. 33. Officer Spilker-Wilson contacted the

apartment manager at the Gramercy Apartments at 9072 Gramercy Drive. The apartment

manager said that Adams lived in an apartment…