People v. Morrison
Annotate this CaseThe Court of Appeal reversed the trial court's order dismissing a civil commitment petition after respondent was identified as a sexually violent predator (SVP). The court held that the Sexually Violent Predator Act required the Director of the Department of State Hospitals (DSH) to request the District Attorney to file a civil commitment petition. In this case, three out of four experts concluded that respondent was a SVP; respondent confided to a psychologist that, if release, he would rape again; and releasing him without submitting the issue to a jury would be an absurd result frustrating the statutory purposes of protecting the public and providing treatment to SVPs.
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