Constitutional Implications of the Involuntary Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators-A Due Process Analysis
Deborah L. Morris · Scholarship @ Cornell Law (Cornell University) · 1997
New Jersey Assembly Bill 155, A Bill Allowing the Civil Commitment of Vwlent Sex Offenders After the Completion of a Criminal Sentence, 18SEroN HALL LEGIS.J. 890 (1994) (describing public outrage over and legislative response to the release of Donad Chapman); Marie A. Bochnewich, Comment, Prediction of Dangerousness and Washington's Sexually Viwlent Predator Statute, 29 CAL.W. L. REv.277 (1992) (referring to the public outcry in Washington State that led to the enactment of its sexually violent predator statute); Kelly A. McCaffrey, Comment, The Civil Commitment of Sexually Vwlent Predators in Kansas: A Modem Law for Modern Times, 42 KAN.L. Rxv.887 (1994) (detailing the creation of Kansas' Task Force on Sex Offenders by a couple whose daughter was raped and murdered by a released offender with a history of violent sexual offenses).2 McCaffrey, supra note 1, at 889. 3 California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, NewJersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia currently have sexual predator laws.