California Court of Appeal

A judgment of extended commitment to the California Youth Authority is reversed where no rational trier of fact could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant had serious difficulty controlling his sexually deviant behavior. Consequently, principles of double jeopardy require the discharge of defendant from civil confinement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/07/2006
• Published 03/07/2006

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Heather J. MacKay, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Oakland, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Julie A. Hokans, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Raymond L. Brosterhous II, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.