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Name: People v. Whitlock
Case #: D041020
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 4 DCA
Division: 1
Opinion Date: 11/19/2003
Subsequent History: None
Summary

A qualifying prior conviction under the Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVP)involving “substantial sexual contact” does not invariably require skin to skin contact. Here defendant’s prior conviction involved touching the child’s vagina over her clothing and constituted substantial sexual contact.