California’s SVP Law Survives Sixth Amendment Challenge
Author: Fred Cohen .
Source: Volume 08, Number 02, July/August 2006 , pp.25-25(1)
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Abstract:
The court holds that the petitioner did not have a Sixth Amendment right to confrontation in the sexually violent predator (SVP), civil commitment proceedings, and that the use of documentary evidence (a probation report) in lieu of live testimony in such proceedings did not violate due process.Keywords: Carty v. Nelson, 426 F.3d 1064, Middendorf v. Henry, 425 U.S. 25, Cf. United States v. Sahhar, 917 F.2d 1197, 1205-06, Vitek v. Jones, 445 U.S. 480, Kansas v. Hendricks, 521 U.S. 346
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