OPINION
I. INTRODUCTION
Defendant William Karl Olsen was committed for an indeterminate term to the State Department of Mental Health (now, State Department of State Hospitals; hereafter the Department) after a jury determined defendant to be a sexually violent predator within the meaning of the Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVPA). (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 6600 et seq.)
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