Knighten v. General Insurance Co. of America

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that although experts must offer an opinion as to whether an individual is likely to re-offend, “the precise manner of meeting this burden is not analyzed in terms of a strict, three-prong test”
• the Commonwealth’s expert did not review trial transcripts when determining the defendant to be an SVP
• “At the core of the expert’s assessment is a detailed list of factors, which are [mandated] and are designed as, ‘criteria by which . . . [the] likelihood [of reoffense] may be gauged.’”
• rejecting a “strict, three-prong test”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).