IN RE ALTERNATIVE PLACEMENT OF MORFORD

No. 2005AP1697.

724 N.W.2d 916 (2006)

2006 WI App 229

In the Matter of the ALTERNATIVE PLACEMENT OF Billy Lee MORFORD. State of Wisconsin, Appellant, Billy Lee Morford, Intervenor, v. Milwaukee County, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

October 17, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiff-appellant, the cause was submitted on the brief of Rebecca F. Dallet, assistant district attorney, E. Michael McCann, district attorney and Peggy A. Lautenschlager, attorney general.

On behalf of the intervenor, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Ellen Henak, assistant state public defender of Milwaukee.

On behalf of the defendant-respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of John F. Jorgensen, principal assistant corporation counsel and William J. Domina, corporation counsel of Milwaukee.

Before FINE, CURLEY and KESSLER, JJ.


¶ 1 KESSLER, J.

The State, by the Milwaukee County District Attorney, filed a motion seeking an order directing Milwaukee County to build or acquire a facility in which to house Billy Lee Morford, who has been committed, since July 1997, under WIS. STAT. ch. 980 (2003-04)1 as a "sexually violent person" who "suffers from a mental disorder that makes it likely that the person will engage in acts of sexual violence."

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