PEOPLE v. ALLEN

No. S148949.

44 Cal.4th 843 (2008)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. TONY LEE ALLEN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

July 28, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Blake, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Jeffrey J. Koch and Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorneys General, Brad Weinreb and Steve Oetting, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GEORGE, C. J.

Defendant Tony Lee Allen committed two forcible rapes in 1990. (Pen. Code, § 261, subd. (a)(2).) He pleaded guilty to those offenses and was sentenced to 20 years in state prison. Upon his release from prison in 2001, he was committed to Atascadero State Hospital (Atascadero) under the Sexually Violent Predator Act. (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 6600 et seq. (SVPA or Act).)1 This...

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