Supreme Court of California

The jury in a Sexually Violent Predators Act case need not have been separately and specifically instructed on the need to find serious difficulty in controlling behavior; regardless, absence of a "control" instruction was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/21/2003
• Published 08/21/2003

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Gerald J. Miller, under appointment by the Supreme Court of Appeal, Agoura Hills, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Steven T. Oetting, Bradley A. Weinreb, Janelle Boustany and Felicity Senoski, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.