MATTER OF COMMITMENT OF J.S.

Docket No. A-0625-19.

252 A.3d 222 (2021)

467 N.J. Super. 291

In the MATTER OF the Civil COMMITMENT OF J.S., SVP 24-99.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided May 24, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph E. Krakora , Public Defender, attorney for appellant J.S. ( Joan D. VanPelt , Newark, Designated Counsel, on the brief).

Gurbir S. Grewal , Attorney General, attorney for respondent State of New Jersey ( Melissa H. Raksa , Assistant Attorney General, of counsel; Stephen Slocum , Deputy Attorney General, on the brief).

Before Judges Yannotti, Haas, and Mawla.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

J.S. appeals from a September 6, 2019 order finding he continued to be a sexually-violent predator who must be civilly committed in the Special Treatment Unit (STU) under the Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA), N.J.S.A. 30:4-27.24 to — 27.38. We affirm.

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