PEOPLE v. SUPERIOR COURT OF FRESNO COUNTY

No. F034275.

95 Cal.Rptr.2d 659 (2000)

80 Cal.App.4th 820

The PEOPLE, Petitioner, v. The SUPERIOR COURT OF FRESNO COUNTY, Respondent; Bruce Edward Riley, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

Review Denied August 23, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Louis M. Vasquez and Robert P. Whitlock, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner.

No appearance for respondent.

Charles P. Dreiling, Public Defender, and Garrick Byers, Deputy Public Defender for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

LEVY, J.

In this writ proceeding, the People challenge the trial court's order dismissing a petition to extend the civil commitment of real party in interest, Bruce Edward Riley, under the Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA ). (Welf. & Inst.Code, § 6600 et seq.)1 The SVPA establishes a procedure for identifying the extremely dangerous sexual predators who are likely to engage in acts of sexual violence upon...

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