California Court of Appeal

Trial court order committing defendant for an indeterminate term to the custody of the State Department of Mental Health under the Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) is affirmed where trial court erred in excluding as irrelevant defendant's testimony, but there was an insufficient showing of prejudice from the exclusion and thus the error was harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/08/2009
• Published 04/08/2009

Judges

• IRION, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Rudy Kraft, San Luis Obispo, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Barry Carlton and Sharon L. Rhodes, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.