California Court of Appeal

Where the government's case, extending appellant's commitment under the Sexually Violent Predators Act, depended "overwhelmingly" on expert opinion (constituting circumstantial evidence), the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury with CALJIC No. 2.01; error was harmless due to improbability of a different result.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/07/2002
• Published 05/07/2002

Judges

• SIMS, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Howard J. Stechel, Los Angeles, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Clayton S. Tanaka and Jane N. Kirkland, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.