Legal Opinion
Moore v. Superior Court
California Supreme Court
Decided August 19, 2010No. S174633PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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BAXTER, J.
Defendant Ardell Moore was convicted of forcible oral copulation against a teenage girl he abducted in 1978. He was imprisoned and then paroled in 1981. In 1984, he kidnapped and sexually assaulted another female victim he did not know, and served a lengthy prison term following his conviction for those crimes. Upon his release from prison in 2000, defendant was tried and committed as a sexually violent predator (SVP) under the Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA or Act) (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 6600 et seq.).1 Such commitment involved confinement and treatment in a secure…
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