P. v. Owen CA4/3
Jeremy Campbell Owen appeals from the trial court’s judgment committing him to a state hospital following a jury’s finding he was a sexually violent predator (SVP) within the meaning of the Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 6600 et seq.) Owen raises two claims: (1) he was prejudiced both by the introduction of inadmissible lay-witness hearsay evidence and by case-specific expert witness hearsay evidence elicited in violation of People v. Sanchez (2016) 63 Cal.4th 665 (Sanchez); and (2) the SVPA provision permitting admission of multi-level hearsay documents to prove the details underlying certain prior convictions (§ 6600, subd. (a)(3)), is unconstitutional — both facially and as applied to him in this case.
We find most of Owen’s hearsay claims are without merit. Further, any actual evidentiary errors were either forfeited by a failure to object or were harmless in light of other properly admitted evidence. Consequently, it is not reasonabl
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