California Court of Appeal

Order recommitting defendant for an indeterminate term to the custody of the Department of Mental Health as a sexually violent predator is affirmed over claim that amendment to Welfare and Institutions Code section 6604 deprived the court of jurisdiction to find defendant to be an SVP and recommit him as section 6604's two-year commitment procedure has been eliminated, and the amended SVP statute fails to expressly refer to persons already confined for two-year terms under former section 6604.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/21/2007
• Published 09/21/2007

Judges

• HALLER, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Steven J. Carroll, Public Defender, Gary R. Nichols and Laura Arnold, Deputy Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette and Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorneys General, Barry J.T. Carlton and Bradley A. Weinreb, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.