What is the effect of a finding that a defendant is a probable mentally disordered sex offender on his mental health?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Harvath, 1 Cal.App.3d 521, 82 Cal.Rptr. 48 (Cal. App. 1969):

'Although defendant is no longer confined under that order, the matter is not moot since he is entitled to clear his name of the finding that he is a probable mentally disordered sex offender. Had the statute been complied with, it is conceivable that the court appointed doctors might have reached a different conclusion as to defendant's mental state which, in turn, might have had the corresponding effect of influencing the court to reach the same result. (See People v. Succop, 67 Cal.2d 785, 790 (63 Cal.Rptr. 569, 433 P.2d 473).)

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