{"id":1192,"date":"2018-12-20T09:32:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2019-10-21T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T19:47:26","slug":"people-v-superior-court-ct-app-2nd-dist-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2018\/12\/20\/people-v-superior-court-ct-app-2nd-dist-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"People v. Superior Court (Cal. Ct. App. 2nd. Dist. 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"introduction-wrapper\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">People v. Superior Court, 27 Cal. App. 5th 36 (Cal. Ct. App. 2nd. Dist. 2018)<\/h2>\n<p><strong><strong>Nature of Case: <\/strong><\/strong> George Vasquez, held for 17 years as a probable cause SVP in California State Hospitals, was ordered released by LA Superior Court as that length of delay was held unconstitutional violation of Vasquez&#8217;s right to a Speedy Trial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holding:\u00a0<\/strong> Appellate Court affirmed. While some of the delay was due to fault of individual attorneys, much of it was attributable to a fundamental breakdown in the SVP public defense system in California. Because such faults are attributable to the state, Vasquez&#8217;s right to a speedy trial was violated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Case Documents<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2018\/12\/California-Court-of-Appeals-Opinion.pdf\">California Court of Appeals Opinion<\/a>\u00a0| view via <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=1008695791186537079&amp;q=B287946&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4000006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>News and Related Materials<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-sex-offender-release-20180109-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">L.A. child molester to be released after spending 17 years in state hospital awaiting trial<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Court of Appeal opinion finding that right to Speedy Trial was violated in case of man who was held for 17 years without civil commitment hearing due to variety of factors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2018\/12\/20\/people-v-superior-court-ct-app-2nd-dist-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">People v. Superior Court (Cal. Ct. App. 2nd. Dist. 2018)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[203,102,143],"class_list":{"0":"post-1192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-civil-commitment-cases","7":"tag-9th-circuit","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-speedy-trial","10":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}