People v. Whaley

*971Opinion

BAMATTRE-MANOUKIAN, Acting P. J.

I. INTRODUCTION

Defendant George L. Whaley appeals from an order of the trial court recommitting him to the Department of Mental Health for a period of two years under the Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA). (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 6600 et seq.)1

Whaley contends that the trial court erred in giving a supplemental jury instruction to the deadlocked jury that exerted undue pressure on the holdout juror, in violation of the rule established in People v. Gainer (1977) 19 Cal.3d 835, 850 [139 Cal.Rptr. 861, 566 P.2d 997] (Gainer) that the minority jurors…