People v. Flint
Annotate this CaseFlint was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to three counts of committing lewd and lascivious acts on children under the age of 14. Flint was paroled, but pleaded guilty the following year, again under Penal Code 288(a). One month before his scheduled release, the Mendocino County District Attorney filed a petition to involuntarily commit him as a Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) (Welf. & Inst. Code 6600). Flint unsuccessfully moved to prohibit the prosecution from calling him as a witness, arguing that it was an equal protection violation to compel an SVP to testify because the prosecution could not call as a witness a person found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI) or a juvenile in commitment extension hearings. The prosecution called as witnesses Flint, three of his victims, a psychologist and SVP evaluator. Flint called a behavior specialist at the hospital where he was confined, two psychologists who had evaluated him, and a friend who had offered him a job and housing on his release. The jury found Flint qualified as an SVP. The court ordered Flint committed for an indefinite term to a state hospital. The court of appeal remanded for consideration of the justification for the differential treatment of SVP’s and NGI’s in their respective commitment hearings.
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