IN RE DETENTION OF HUSS

No. 02-1642.

688 N.W.2d 58 (2004)

In re the DETENTION OF Loren G. HUSS, Jr. Loren G. Huss, Jr., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

October 6, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark C. Smith, First Assistant State Public Defender, and Greg Bal, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, and Roxann M. Ryan, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.


CARTER, Justice.

Loren G. Huss, Jr., who was acquitted of a charge of first-degree murder by reason of insanity, appeals from a subsequent judgment committing him as a sexually violent predator. He urges that there were procedural irregularities in the commitment proceedings that violated his constitutional rights and further contends that he was subjected to an improper judgment by default as a sanction for his failure to submit to a psychological examination. After...

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