California Court of Appeal

Under the Sexually Violent Predators Act, Welf. & Inst. Code 6600 et seq., a post-filing split of expert opinion on whether a defendant is a sexually violent predator does not lead to mandatory dismissal of the petition when the initial experts agreed a defendant qualified.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/16/2002
• Published 01/16/2002

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  John E. Roth, Public Defender, and Pamela P. King, Deputy Public Defender, for Petitioner., Dennis L. Stout, District Attorney, Grover D. Merritt, Lead Deputy District Attorney, and Mary L. Andonov, Deputy District Attorney, for Real Party in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance, for Respondent.