California Court of Appeal

Defendant's recommitment to state hospital after a jury finding that he continued to be a sexually violent predator within the meaning of the Sexually Violent Predator Act is affirmed over claims that: 1) since he voluntarily underwent chemical and surgical castration while confined, the future-dangerousness finding was not supported by substantial evidence; and 2) the trial court erred when it modified a pattern jury instruction regarding future dangerousness.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/01/2006
• Published 11/01/2006

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Hayes H. Gable, III, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Sacramento, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Stan Cross and Julie A. Hokans, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.