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Sexual History May Trump Test Results Leading to SVP Classification Despite Castration

California prisoner and sexually violent predator (SVP) Edward Flores appealed a 2005 jury decision to retain him in the state hospital as a civilly-committed sex offender. He claimed that his voluntary castration should render the use of regularly-used sexual testing instruments void, leaving insufficient evidence for SVP commitment criteria, and ...

 

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