California Court of Appeal
People v. Roa, 264885
In an appeal of a judgment and order committing defendant indefinitely to the custody of the Department of State Hospitals after a jury found him to be a sexually violent predator (SVP) under the Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA), Welf. & Inst. Code section 6600 et seq., the trial court's judgment is reversed where it erred by allowing the experts to recite case-specific facts that were not independently proven by admissible evidence and that the error was prejudicial under the standard set forth in People v. Watson (1956) 46 Cal.2d 818.
Appellate Information
- Published 2017/05/02
Judges
- CHAVEZ
Court
- California Court of Appeal