IN RE COMMITMENT OF R.S.


773 A.2d 72 (2001)

339 N.J. Super. 507

In the Matter of the COMMITMENT OF R.S., Petitioner-Appellant.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided April 20, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Culleton, Jr., Deputy Public Defender, for appellant R.S. (Peter A. Garcia, Acting Public Defender, attorney; Mr. Culleton, on the brief).

Allison Accurso, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent State of New Jersey (John J. Farmer, Jr., Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney; Nancy Kaplen, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel; Mary Beth Wood and Douglass Derry, Deputy Attorneys General, on the brief).

Before Judges KING, COBURN and AXELRAD.


The opinion of the court was delivered by KING, P.J.A.D.

This is an appeal from a decision to admit testimony into evidence about actuarial risk assessment in a civil commitment hearing under the New Jersey Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVPA or Act), N.J.S.A. 30:4-27.24 to -27.38; L. 1998, c. 71, effective date August 12, 1999; see In re Commitment of M.G., 331 N.J.Super. 365...

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