MATTER OF D.N.

No. SC 98077.

598 S.W.3d 108 (2020)

In the MATTER OF the Care and Treatment of D.N.

Supreme Court of Missouri, en banc.

Opinion issued April 14, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D.N. was represented by Amy E. Lowe of the public defender's office in St. Louis, (314) 340-7662.

The state was represented by Garrick Aplin of the attorney general's office in Jefferson City, (573) 751-3321.


In 2005, appellant D.N. ("Offender") pleaded guilty to felony sex abuse and was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. Before Offender's release in August 2016, the State filed a petition seeking to civilly commit Offender to the department of mental health ("DMH") as a sexually violent predator ("SVP"), as defined by section...

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