IN RE CIVIL COMMITMENT OF GIEM

No. A06-1588.

727 N.W.2d 198 (2007)

In the Matter of the CIVIL COMMITMENT OF Terrance John GIEM.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

February 13, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Margaret Huot, Huot and Spangler, PLLP, St. Paul, MN, for appellant Terrance John Giem.

Susan Gaertner, Ramsey County Attorney, Margaret Gustafson Samec, Special Assistant County Attorney, St. Paul, MN, for respondent Ramsey County.

Considered and decided by TOUSSAINT, Chief Judge; LANSING, Judge; and DIETZEN, Judge.


OPINION

LANSING, Judge.

Terrance Giem appeals from the district court's order denying his motion to dismiss for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, the county's petition to commit him as a sexually dangerous person and a sexual psychopathic personality. Because we conclude that Minn.Stat. § 253B.08 (Supp. 2005) does not define or limit subject-matter jurisdiction but does confer statutory rights subject to waiver, and because the district court did...

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