Proactive Online Stings Do Little to Protect Children by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Many Americans landed themselvesin prison for enticement of a minor as a result of a police sting operation. The practice continues although it has never been shown to actually prevent crimes against children. The …

California Court of Appeal Announces the People Are Not Entitled to Have Privately Retained Psychological Expert Testify at Trial of SVPA Petition by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, held that the Sexually Violent Predator Act, Welf. & Inst. Code § 6600 …

California Court of Appeal: Exclusion of Expert Witness at SVP Trial as Remedy for Discovery Violation Constitutes Denial of Constitutional Due Process by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, concluded that a trial court erred by excluding the defense’s only expert …

Texas Supreme Court Announces Factual-Sufficiency Standard of Review in SVP Determinations by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankeny The Supreme Court of Texas announced the standard governing factual-sufficiency review of a finding that a person is a sexually violent predator (“SVP”). In 2004, Jeffery Lee Stoddard pleaded guilty to two counts …

Assessing the Real Risk of Sexually Violent Predators: Doctor Padilla's Dangerous Data, Tamara Rice Lave and Franklin E. Zimring, 2018 ASSESSING THE REAL RISK OF SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORS: DOCTOR PADILLA’S DANGEROUS DATA Tamara Rice Lave* and Franklin E. Zimring** ABSTRACT This Article uses internal memoranda and emails to describe the …