P. v. Gray
Filed 6/6/06 P. v. Gray CA4/2
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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT
DIVISION TWO
| THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WALTER EUGENE GRAY, Defendant and Appellant. | E037779 (Super.Ct.No. RIC 365182) OPINION |
APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. Carl E. Davis, Judge. (Retired judge of the Super. Ct. of San Bernardino County, assigned by the Chief Justice pursuant to art. VI, § 6, of the Cal. Const.). Affirmed.
Kent D. Baker, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ronald Jakob and Bradley A. Weinreb, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
A jury adjudged Walter Gray to be a sexually violent predator (Welf. & Inst. Code § 6600 et seq.) and the trial court committed him to the Department of Mental Health. He appeals, claiming the jury improperly relied on his 1967 and 1975 priors in finding that he was a sexually violent predator. We disagree and affirm.
ISSUES AND DISCUSSION
1. Use of the 1967 Prior
Welfare and Institutions Code section 6600 provides the definition of a sexually violent predator as one who has been convicted of a sexually violent offense. Subdivision (a)(2) states, â€
