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IN RE BLODGETT

No. C9-92-844.

510 N.W.2d 910 (1994)

In Re Phillip Jay BLODGETT, Alleged Psychopathic Personality.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

January 14, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Ilkka, Stillwater, for appellant.

Richard M. Arney, Washington County Atty., Douglas G. Swenson, and Susan Steffen Tice, Asst. Washington County Attys., Stillwater, for Washington County.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Kathy Meade Hebert, and Cheryl W. Heilman, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, for the State.

Deborah Gilman, John E. Grzybek, and Richard K. Ellison, Minneapolis, amicus curiae for MCLU.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.

SIMONETT, Justice.

Petitioner Phillip Jay Blodgett challenges the constitutionality of the Minnesota Psychopathic Personality Commitment Act, Minn.Stat. § 526.09-.10 (1992), under which he has been committed to the Minnesota Security Hospital as a psychopathic personality. We conclude, as did the lower courts, that the Act is constitutional, and affirm.

Blodgett, now 28, has a history of sexual misconduct and violence beginning when he was 16 years old...

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