California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from In Re CONNIE ANN RODDEN, C064437, No. CM029493 (Cal. App. 2010):
statutory predecessor that includes all elements of one of the above-mentioned offenses...." Thus, "[a] critical element of section 290 is conviction of an enumerated sex offense...." (People v. Cajina (2005) 127 Cal.App.4th 929, 933, italics added.)
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