CARE AND TREATMENT OF BEAVER v. STATE

No. 26279.

372 S.C. 272 (2007)

642 S.E.2d 578

In the Matter of the CARE AND TREATMENT OF Larry Gene BEAVER, Respondent, v. The STATE of South Carolina, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided February 27, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General, John W. McIntosh, Assistant Attorney General, Deborah R.J. Shupe, and Assistant Attorney General David M. Stumbo, all of Columbia, for appellant.

William Isaac Diggs, of Myrtle Beach, for respondent.


Justice MOORE.

Respondent pled guilty to one count of lewd act on a minor. He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment, suspended on nine months confinement and three years probation. The State commenced a civil action seeking respondent's commitment as a sexually violent predator pursuant to the South Carolina Sexually Violent Predator Act (the SVP Act), S.C.Code § 44-48-10 through -170 (Supp.2006). At the probable cause hearing, the judge found no probable...

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