Ferrara v. Commonwealth

PRESENT: All the Justices FRANK PAUL FERRARA OPINION BY v. Record No. 200117 JUSTICE STEPHEN R. McCULLOUGH February 25, 2021 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF FAUQUIER COUNTY Jeffrey W. Parker, Judge Frank Paul Ferrara repeatedly refused to cooperate with the expert who was tasked with evaluating him for purposes of determining whether he was a sexually violent predator for purposes of Virginia’s Sexually Violent Predators Act (“SVPA”), Code §§ 37.2-900 through -921. At his commitment hearing, Ferrara sought to introduce as substantive evidence the results of two prior mental…