California Court of Appeal

A judgment ordering defendant civilly committed as a sexually violent predator is affirmed, where the government elicited sufficient evidence that defendant's mental illness made him unlikely to be deterred by the threat of criminal punishment, and he thus lacked control of his sexually violent behavior.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/11/2002
• Published 10/11/2002

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Maureen J. Shanahan, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Warren P. Robinson and Bradley A. Weinreb, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.