Does the corpus delicti rule apply when a defendant has registered as a sex offender without the proper address?

In People v. Chan (2005) 128 Cal.App.4th 408, the defendant was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender, among other crimes. (Id. at p. 413.) The defendant had registered, but had given false addresses. (Id. at pp. 414-415.) He contended there was insufficient evidence to convict him because the corpus delicti rule precluded the prosecution from proving the offense solely by the defendant's own extrajudicial statements, i.e., the forms he filled out with a false address. (Id. at pp. 419-420.) The court rejected that argument: "[T]he corpus delicti rule has no application when the defendant's extrajudicial statements constitute the crime." (Id. at p. 420.) Citing

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