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IN RE COMMITMENT OF WEST

No. 2009AP1579.

800 N.W.2d 929 (2011)

2011 WI 83

In re the COMMITMENT OF Edwin C. WEST: State of Wisconsin, Petitioner-Respondent, v. Edwin Clarence West, Respondent-Appellant-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided July 26, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondent-appellant there were briefs and oral argument by Ellen Henak , assistant state public defender.

For the petitioner-respondent the cause was argued by Warren D. Weinstein , assistant attorney general, with whom on the brief was J.B. Van Hollen , attorney general.

DAVID T. PROSSER, J.

¶ 1 This is a review of an unpublished decision of the court of appeals1 affirming an order of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court denying Edwin Clarence West's (West) petition for supervised release.

¶ 2 In 1997 a jury found that West was a sexually violent person under Wis. Stat. ch. 980, and he was thereafter committed under that chapter. Under § 980.08(1), persons committed under ch. 980 may...

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