IN RE COMMITMENT OF E.D.


874 A.2d 1075 (2005)

183 N.J. 536

In the Matter of Civil COMMITMENT OF E.D.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided June 15, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joan D. Van Pelt, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for appellant, E.D. (Yvonne Smith Segars, Public Defender, attorney; Brian J. Neff, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, on the brief).

Mary Beth Wood, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent, State of New Jersey (Peter C. Harvey, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney).


Justice WALLACE delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal presents us with the opportunity to address a challenge to the procedures used to revoke a committee's conditional discharge and to recommit under the New Jersey Sexually Violent Predator Act, N.J.S.A. 30:4-72.24 to -27.38 (the Act). We upheld the constitutionality of the Act in In re Commitment of W.Z., 173 N.J. 109, 801 A.2d 205 (2002). We now hold that...

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