MERRYFIELD v. STATE

No. 103,394.

241 P.3d 573 (2010)

Dustin J. MERRYFIELD, Appellant, v. STATE of Kansas, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

October 22, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dustin J. Merryfield , of Larned, appellant pro se.

C. William Ossmann , chief of litigation, and Danny J. Baumgartner , litigation attorney, of Kansas Department of SRS, for appellees.

Before McANANY, P.J., BUSER and LEBEN, JJ.


LEBEN, J.

For more than a decade, Dustin Merryfield has been confined at the Larned State Hospital under the Kansas Sexually Violent Predator Act, K.S.A. 59-29a01 et seq. He has filed a habeas-corpus petition under K.S.A. 60-1501 raising claims that go to the core of the Kansas treatment program for sexual predators: Merryfield claims that the program is run so poorly that it doesn't offer a realistic opportunity to cure or improve the mental abnormality for...

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