PEOPLE v. ALLEN

No. E039518.

50 Cal.Rptr.3d 913 (2006)

144 Cal.App.4th 1132

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Tony Lee ALLEN, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeal of California, Fourth District, Division Two.

November 16, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher Blake, San Diego, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey J. Koch, Deputy Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Steve Oetting, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GAUT, J.

Defendant Tony Lee Allen appeals from an order of recommitment after a jury determined he remains a sexually violent predator (SVP) under the Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVPA). (Welf. & Inst.Code, § 6600 et seq.)1 Defendant challenges the order on the sole ground that he was deprived of his constitutional right to testify on his own behalf at his SVP trial.

We conclude defendant did not have...

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