Walker

Filed 10/13/

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF

CALIFORNIA

JEFFREY WALKER,

Petitioner, v.

THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF

SAN FRANCISCO,

Respondent;

THE PEOPLE,

Real Party in Interest.

S263588

First Appellate District, Division Four

A159563

San Francisco City and County Superior Court 2219428, 195198

ORDER MODIFYING OPINION AND

DENYING PETITION FOR REHEARING

THE COURT:

The majority opinion in this matter, filed on August 30, 2021, and appearing at 12 Cal.5th 177, is modified as follows: The last paragraph on page 206 under heading “C.” is modified to read:

1 The admission of the contested hearsay in the MacSpeiden and Karlsson evaluation reports represented material error under the standard set forth in Reilly v. Superior Court (2013) 57 Cal.4th 641, 652–656. Reilly involved the issue of whether an SVP petition must be dismissed if the evaluations supporting the petition were conducted under an invalid assessment protocol. Reilly concluded the defendant, as the party seeking mandate, bore the burden of showing the error “materially affect[ed] the outcome of his probable cause hearing.” (Reilly, at p. 656.) As described in Cooley, “a determination of probable…