People v. McRoberts CA3

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

In November 2008, McRoberts, then age 25, was adjudicated an SVP based on various sex offenses -- including sexual battery, lewd and lascivious act with a child under age 14, attempted lewd act on a child under age 14, and indecent exposure -- committed between 1998 and 2004. He was committed to Coalinga State Hospital. On September 2, 2011, McRoberts in propria persona filed a petition for conditional release or unconditional discharge under section 6608, subdivision (a), without the recommendation or concurrence of the Director of Mental Health. McRoberts submitted an “OFFER OF PROOF” listing 31 persons currently or formerly connected with Coalinga State Hospital -- from clinical psychologists to social workers to rehabilitation therapists to nurses to psychiatric technicians to an art therapist. He asserted two clinical psychologists were responsible for interviewing and evaluating “Phase Program” participants and were part of his “Phase Staffing” in 2011. Other clinical psychologists and one social worker were “group treatment facilitators” who facilitated group therapy and provided individual therapy sessions as needed and were or had been his primary…