Legal Opinion
In Re Wright
California Court of Appeal
Decided April 19, 2005No. D044976PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
McINTYRE, J.
A jury concluded that Robert Edward Wright was a sexually violent predator (SVP) within the meaning of the Sexually Violent Predators Act (the Act, Welf. & Inst. Code, § 6600 et seq.; all undesignated statutory references are to this code), and the court committed him to a state mental institution for a two-year term. As a procedural prerequisite to the commencement of this proceeding, the Director of the State Department of Mental Health (Director) was required to designate “two practicing psychiatrists or psychologists, or one practicing psychiatrist and one practicing…
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