California Court of Appeal

In a jury trial pursuant to the Sexually Violent Predator Act, the defendant is entitled to six peremptory challenges per California Code of Civil Procedure section 231(c). Neither state nor federal due process or equal protection principles require that state law provide such a defendant the same number of peremptory challenges as in most criminal cases.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/11/2004
• Published 05/11/2004

Judges

• STEIN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Ozro William Childs, Santa Rosa, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Laurence, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.