Cooley v. Superior Court

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• approving confinement of person until commitment trial once judge determines at probable cause hearing that “reasonable person could entertain a strong suspicion” that person is sexually violent [emphasis in original]
• psychiatrist's prediction of future dangerousness is not subject to Frye, regardless of whether the psychiatrist used clinical or actuarial models
• psychiatrist’s prediction of future dangerousness is not subject to Frye, regardless of whether the psychiatrist used clinical or actuarial models
• psychiatrist's prediction of future dangerousness is not subject to Frye , regardless of whether the psychiatrist used clinical or actuarial models
• “We conclude, therefore, that a determination of probable cause by a superior court judge under the SVPA entails a decision whether a reasonable person could entertain a strong suspicion that the offender is an SVP.”
• same argument was made in support of polygraph examinations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).