STATE v. SORENSON

No. 98-3107.

248 Wis.2d 237 (2001)

2001 WI App 251

635 N.W.2d 787

IN RE the COMMITMENT OF Ronald G. SORENSON: STATE of Wisconsin, Petitioner-Respondent, v. Ronald G. SORENSON, Respondent-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided September 20, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the respondent-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of T. Christopher Kelly of Thomas, Kelly, Habermehl & Mays, S.C., Madison.

On behalf of the petitioner-respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of Warren D. Weinstein, assistant attorney general, and James E. Doyle, attorney general.

Before Vergeront, P.J., Dykman and Lundsten, JJ.


¶ 1. LUNDSTEN, J.

Ronald G. Sorenson was adjudicated a sexually violent person pursuant to WIS. STAT. ch. 980 (1995-96).1 Sorenson complains that error occurred in his Chapter 980 trial when the trial court prohibited him from presenting evidence in his attempt to show that he was wrongly convicted in 1985 of the predicate sexual assault upon which the Chapter 980 petition was based.

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