P. v. Flores
The trial court sustained a petition to extend defendant Edward Floress commitment to the state hospital as a sexually violent predator (SVP). The parties entered into a stipulation by which defendant would not contest the petition, the People would not contest defendants petition for conditional release, and defendant could appeal on a single pretrial issue decided against him by the trial court: whether the petition should be dismissed because the Department of Mental Health could not, as the time of trial approached, produce two experts who agreed that defendant satisfied the criteria for continued commitment. Since the departments two experts agreed that defendant satisfied those criteria back when the department forwarded the request for recommitment to the District Attorneythe only stage at which this agreement is statutorily requiredthe trial court was correct to deny defendants motion to dismiss. Court affirm.
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