Legal Opinion
Arizona State Hospital v. Klein
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided February 5, 2013No. 1 CA-SA 12-0244PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JOHNSEN, Judge.
¶ 1 In this special action we hold that Arizona Rule of Evidence 702 applies to testimony by a mental-health expert at a trial on a petition for discharge filed by a person committed under the Arizona Sexually Violent Persons Act (“SVPA”), Arizona Revised Statutes (“A.R.S.”) sections 36-3701 to -3717 (West 2013).1 Petitioner is the Arizona Community Protection and Treatment Center (“Center”), in which real-party-in-interest Charles P. is detained for treatment pursuant to the SVPA. The Center challenges the superior court’s order setting a pretrial hearing pursuant to…
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