PEOPLE v. McKEE

No. S162823.

47 Cal.4th 1172 (2010)

104 Cal. Rptr. 3d 427

223 P.3d 566

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RICHARD McKEE, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

January 28, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen M. Hinkle, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Barry Carlton, Steve Oetting and Bradley A. Weinreb, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

MORENO, J.

Proposition 83, passed by the voters in November of 2006, modified the terms by which sexually violent predators (SVP's) can be released from civil commitment under the Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVP Act or Act; Welf. & Inst. Code, § 6600 et seq.). In essence, it changes the commitment from a two-year term, renewable only if the People prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the individual still...

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