People v. Friday

CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal
DecidedMarch 27, 2014
DocketH039404
StatusPublished

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People v. Friday, (Cal. Ct. App. 2014).

Opinion

Filed 3/27/14 CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

THE PEOPLE, H039404 (Santa Clara County Plaintiff and Respondent, Super. Ct. No. C1240683)

v.

JEFFREY DAVID ALLEN FRIDAY,

Defendant and Appellant.

Penal Code section 1203.067 requires any person placed on probation for a registerable sex offense to waive the privilege against self-incrimination and waive the psychotherapist-patient privilege. This case concerns the constitutionality of requiring these waivers as probation conditions. First, we hold that the condition requiring a waiver of the privilege against self- incrimination is prohibited by the Fifth Amendment under Minnesota v. Murphy (1984) 465 U.S. 420 (“Our decisions have made clear that the State could not constitutionally carry out a threat to revoke probation for the legitimate exercise of the Fifth Amendment privilege.”). (Accord United States v. Saechao (9th Cir. 2005) 418 F.3d 1073; United States v. Antelope (9th Cir. 2005) 395 F.3d 1128; State v. Eccles (1994) 179 Ariz. 226.) Second, we construe the waiver of the psychotherapist-patient privilege as requiring waiver only insofar as necessary to enable communication between the probation officer and the psychotherapist. We hold that the waiver as construed in this fashion is not overbroad in violation of defendant’s constitutional right to privacy. I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Defendant Jeffrey David Allen Friday pleaded no contest to possession of child pornography, which he had downloaded to his computer. (Pen. Code, § 311.11, subd. (a).)1 The record contains almost no facts about the offense. It occurred on or about August 2, 2012. The trial court found “this is a matter which was initiated by a search warrant on the defendant’s computer looking for child porn. It has been determined that he had been downloading since he was 14 or 15 . . . .” Defendant was 19 at the time of the offense. The parties stipulated to a factual basis in the police reports, but the record contains no reports. Because the offense involved “no identifiable victim,” the probation officer did not assess defendant’s level of risk as a future offender. Defendant had suffered no prior convictions. Defendant entered into a plea agreement by which he pleaded no contest to the charged offense in exchange for six months in county jail with no early release.2 The court suspended imposition of the sentence and granted a three-year term of probation, including six months in county jail and mandatory participation in a sex offender management program as probation conditions. The court ordered the following five probation conditions, among others, requiring defendant: (1) to waive any privilege against self-incrimination and participate in polygraph examinations, which must be part of the sex offender management program; (2) to waive any psychotherapist/patient privilege to enable communication between the sex offender management professional and the probation officer; (3) not to purchase or possess any pornographic or sexually explicit material as it relates to minors, as defined by the probation officer; (4) not to possess or use any data encryption technique program;

1 Subsequent undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code. 2 The plea agreement applied only to the length of time in custody, not to the imposition of probation or any probation condition.

2 and (5) not to frequent, be employed by, or engage in any business where pornographic materials are openly exhibited. As to the waivers of the privilege against self- incrimination and the psychotherapist-patient privilege, the court ordered these conditions as mandated by section 1203.067. At sentencing, defendant lodged two objections relevant here. He objected on Fifth Amendment grounds to the waiver of his privilege against self-incrimination. He objected on overbreadth grounds to the condition that he not purchase or possess pornographic material. The trial court overruled defendant’s objections. II. DISCUSSION On appeal, defendant contends the probation conditions requiring waiver of the privilege against self-incrimination and waiver of the psychotherapist-patient privilege are overbroad in violation of his constitutional rights. He also challenges as overbroad the condition requiring him to participate in polygraph examinations. Lastly, he challenges as vague and lacking in scienter requirements the conditions prohibiting purchase or possession of pornography, possession or use of data encryption, and frequenting businesses where pornography is exhibited. A. The Statutory Scheme and Applicable Regulations Under section 1203.067, subdivision (b)(2), any person placed on formal probation on or after July 1, 2012, for any offense requiring registration under sections 290 through 290.023, “shall successfully complete a sex offender management program, following the standards developed pursuant to Section 9003, as a condition of release from probation.”3 Subdivision (b)(3) requires “Waiver of any privilege against self- 3 Section 1203.067, subdivision (b)(1), also requires persons placed on probation for registerable sex offenses prior to July 1, 2012 to participate in a sex offender management program. The waivers at issue in this case do not apply retroactively to probationers whose crimes occurred before the September 9, 2010 effective date of the amendment that added the waivers. (People v. Douglas M. (2013) 220 Cal.App.4th 1068, 1077.)

3 incrimination and participation in polygraph examinations, which shall be part of the sex offender management program.” Subdivision (b)(4) requires “Waiver of any psychotherapist-patient privilege to enable communication between the sex offender management professional and supervising probation officer, pursuant to Section 290.09.”4 The Legislature enacted these provisions in 2010 to amend the Sex Offender Punishment, Control, and Containment Act of 2006 (hereafter, the “Containment Act”). (Stats. 2010, ch. 219, § 17.) The Containment Act created “a standardized, statewide system to identify, assess, monitor and contain known sex offenders for the purpose of reducing the risk of recidivism posed by these offenders, thereby protecting victims and potential victims from future harm.” (§ 290.03, subd. (b), Stats. 2006, ch. 337, § 12.) Before the 2010 amendment, persons placed on probation for certain sex crimes were placed in “an appropriate treatment program designed to deal with child molestation or sexual offenders . . . .” (§ 1203.067, former subd. (b), Stats. 1994, ch. 918, § 1.) The 2010 amendment removed this provision; the Containment Act now requires participation in an “approved sex offender management program” certified by the California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB). (§ 9003.) Under section 9003, CASOMB promulgates standards for certification of sex offender management programs and “sex offender management professionals.” (§ 9003, subds. (a) & (b).) Such programs “shall include treatment, as specified, and dynamic and future violence risk assessments pursuant to Section 290.09.” (§ 9003, subd. (b).) Furthermore, sex offender management programs “shall include polygraph examinations by a certified polygraph examiner, which shall be conducted as needed during the period that the offender is in the sex offender management program.” (Ibid.)

4 The same two waiver conditions apply to parolees. (§ 3008, subds. (d)(3) & (d)(4).)

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