Violent Sexual Predator (SVP) Civil Hearings and the Application of Collateral Estoppel: SVP Civil Hearings and Double Jeopardy

摘要

At the end of a defendant`s term of imprisonment for a sexual crime to which he had pled guilty, the State petitioned to have the defendant found to be a sexually violent predator (SVP) and a proceeding pursuant to the state`s SVP statute was conducted. The state sought to introduce into evidence at