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IN RE DETENTION OF GELTZ

No. 12-0647.

840 N.W.2d 273 (2013)

In re the DETENTION OF Anthony GELTZ, Anthony Geltz, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 6, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael H. Adams , Chief Public Defender, Des Moines, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, and John B. McCormally , Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

WATERMAN, Justice.

This appeal presents the narrow question of whether a juvenile adjudication of delinquency on a charge of sexual abuse can serve as a predicate conviction to adjudicate the offender as a "sexually violent predator" (SVP) under Iowa Code section 229A.2(11) (2011). The district court ordered Anthony Geltz, then age eighteen, confined as an SVP at the Civil Commitment Unit for Sexual Offenders at the Cherokee Mental Health Institute, based on an offense...

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