Re “California courts must now warn defendants of SVP plea consequences” (Aug. 26): The California Supreme Court has now ordered trial courts to issue warnings for defendants entering plea bargains for specific crimes. These crimes require the accused to be labeled a Sexually Violent Predator (SVP). This ruling simply adds another bureaucratic layer to the court system and likely will result in valid convictions being overturned by procedural errors. This may well result in SVPs victimizing the very people the law is intended to protect.

— Jan J. Nowakowski, Ramona