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COMMITMENT OF FISHER v. STATE

No. 13-01-00714-CV.

123 S.W.3d 828 (2003)

The COMMITMENT OF Michael FISHER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi-Edinburg.

December 18, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth W. Balusek, Civil Commitment Services, State Counsel for Offenders, Hunstville, for appellant.

Autumn Lewis, Special Prosecution Unit, Hunstville, for appellee.

Before the Court En Banc.

OPINION

WITTIG1, Justice.

Michael Fisher appeals his indeterminate commitment. The commitment was under the relatively new Texas Sexual Violent Predator Act, effective September 1, 1999. Fisher raises four complaints; two are issues of first impression. First he attacks the sexually violent predator statute (SVP) as punitive, both facially and as applied, because Fisher does not have the mental ability to understand or comply...

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