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STATE v. SORENSON

No. 98-3107.

254 Wis.2d 54 (2002)

2002 WI 78

646 N.W.2d 354

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

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 28, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondent-appellant-petitioner there were briefs by T. Christopher Kelly and Kelly & Habermehl, S.C., Madison, and oral argument by T. Christopher Kelly.

For the petitioner-respondent-cross-petitioner the cause was argued by Warren D. Weinstein, assistant attorney general, with whom on the briefs was James E. Doyle, attorney general.

¶ 1. WILLIAM A. BABLITCH, J.

Ronald Sorenson (Sorenson) was convicted of first-degree sexual assault of his daughter L.S., largely on the basis of her allegations. Subsequently, Sorenson was found to be a sexually violent person by a jury under Wis. Stat. ch. 980 (1995-96).1 At that ch. 980 trial, Sorenson was not allowed to put in evidence that L.S. had recanted her original allegations...

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