King

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAMMY L. PAGE, ) Case No.: 1:16-cv-00522-AWI-JLT (HC) ) Petitioner, ) ORDER ADOPTING FINDINGS AND ) RECOMMENDATIONS IN FULL v. ) ) (Doc. 147) AUDREY KING, ) Respondent. ) ) )

Petitioner is currently confined as a Sexually Violent Predator awaiting trial for recommitment under the California Sexually Violent Predator Act, Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 6600 et seq. Petitioner was originally committed as an SVP in 2004 for a two-year commitment period. The State of California filed a petition to re-commit Petitioner for a second two-year period in 2006. After a change in California law, the prosecutor amended the petition to provide for an indefinite commitment. Petitioner filed a petition for habeas corpus, alleging that the state is violating his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights by continuing to detain him pretrial based on an outdated and scientifically invalid probable cause…