Legal Opinion
Christopher Evans Hubbart v. Robert Knapp Atascadero State Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 13, 2004No. 03-16877PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TALLMAN, Circuit Judge:
Christopher Hubbart claims that his commitment under California’s Sexually Violent Predator Act (“SVPA”), Cal. Welf. & Inst.Code § 6600, et seq., violates federal due process and equal protection, and he seeks habeas corpus relief. Hubbart was the first person confined under this latest California civil commitment statute, and his case follows an evolution of state efforts, civil and criminal, to contain and rehabilitate recidivist sex offenders. The California courts have rejected Hubbart’s facial challenge to the SVPA and upheld its specific application in his case.…
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