The PEOPLE, Petitioner,
v.
The SUPERIOR COURT of Marin County, Respondent,
Patrick Henry GHILOTTI, Real Party in Interest.
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April 25, 2002.
April 25, 2002.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, for Petitioner.
No appearance for Respondent.
Joseph L. Spaeth, Public Defender, Frank J. Cox, Chief Deputy Public Defender, and Edward J. Farrell, Deputy Public Defender, for Real Party in Interest.
Ron Boyer, Deputy Public Defender (Contra Costa); Jean F. Matulis; and John Philipsborn for California Attorneys for Criminal Justice and California Public Defenders Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.
Supreme Court of California.
BAXTER, J.
The Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA or Act) (Welf. & Inst.Code, § 6600 et seq.)1 provides a court process by which certain convicted violent sex offenders, whose current mental disorders make them likely to reoffend if free, may be committed, at the end of their prison terms, for successive two-year periods of state hospital confinement and treatment as long as the disorder-related danger persists. Before an SVPA...
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