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PEOPLE v. CASTILLO

No. B202289.

170 Cal.App.4th 1156 (2009)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAVIER CASTILLO, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Five.

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Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudy Kraft, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Michael P. Judge, Public Defender, Albert J. Menaster and Jack Weedin, Deputy Public Defenders, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey and Chung L. Mar, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

KRIEGLER, J.—

On August 10, 2007, the jury found appellant Javier Castillo to be a sexually violent predator (SVP) under the Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 6600 et seq.).1 The trial court ordered Castillo committed to the State Department of Mental Health for a two-year period.

In his timely appeal, Castillo contends the trial court erroneously and prejudicially...

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