GRIFFIN v. BRUFFETT

No. 115,487.

389 P.3d 992 (2017)

Matthew B. GRIFFIN, Appellant, v. Kari BRUFFETT, Secretary of the Kansas Department on Aging and Disability Services, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

Opinion filed February 10, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew B. Griffin, appellant pro se.

Bryan C. Clark , assistant solicitor general, and Derek Schmidt , attorney general, for appellee.

Before Pierron, P.J., Atcheson and Arnold-Burger, JJ.


In Kansas, as in a few other states, once you have completed your prison term on a sexually violent crime, the State may seek to have you involuntarily civilly committed to a state hospital upon a determination by a jury that you are a sexually violent predator. The United States Supreme Court has upheld this process to be constitutional...

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