Court of Appeals of New York
State of New York v. Floyd Y., 182
Defendant's civil commitment following a proceeding under the Sex Offender Management and Treatment Act (SOMTA), which authorizes the State to place any "dangerous sex offender requiring confinement" in civil management, is reversed and remanded for retrial, where: 1) the Due Process Clause protects against the admission of unreliable hearsay evidence, where such hearsay is more prejudicial than probative, regardless of whether it serves as the basis for an expert's properly proffered opinion testimony; and 2) the admission of the unreliable hearsay was not harmless error.
Appellate Information
- Decided 11/19/2013
- Published 11/19/2013
Judges
- RIVERA
Court
- Court of Appeals of New York