California Court of Appeal

In an defendant's appeal from an order recommitting him to the State Department of State Hospitals (SDSH) for an indeterminate term after a jury found him to be a sexually violent predator (SVP) within the meaning of the Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA), and during the pendency of the SVP proceeding, defendant was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for an intervening criminal offense, the trial court's SVP decision is reversed where the trial court lacked authority to recommit defendant as an SVP once his sentence for the intervening criminal conviction became final.

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• Published 2016/07/27

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