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MATTER OF DETENTION OF BELCHER

No. 93900-4.

399 P.3d 1179 (2017)

In the MATTER OF the DETENTION OF Troy BELCHER, Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Filed August 17, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Travis Stearns , Washington Appellate Project, 1511 3rd Ave., Ste. 701, Seattle, WA, 98101-3647, for Petitioner.

Brooke Elizabeth Burbank , Assistant Attorney General, 800 5th Ave., Ste. 2000, Seattle, WA, 98104-3188, for Respondent.

Andrea Ruth Vitalich , King County Prosecutor's Office, 516 3rd Ave., Ste. W554, Seattle, WA, 98104-2362, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys.

Prachi Vipinchandra Esq. Dave , Attorney at Law, 901 5th Ave., Ste. 630, Seattle, WA, 98164-2086, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of ACLU.

Amy Irene Muth , Law Office of Amy Muth, PLLC, 1111 3rd Ave., Ste. 2220, Seattle, WA, 98101-3213, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

¶ 1 In 2011, at the age of 26, Troy Belcher was civilly committed as a sexually violent predator. In 2015, the superior court ordered that he continue to be indefinitely committed. It based its decision on two sexually violent crimes he perpetrated as a juvenile, a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder with high levels of psychopathy...

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