In Re the Care & Treatment of Van Orden

WILLIAM RAY PRICE, JR., Judge.

Richard Wheeler and John Van Orden previously were convicted of sexually violent offenses. Because of their previous convictions, the state filed a petition for civil commitment of Van Orden and Wheeler as sexually violent predators pursuant to section 632.480 et seq.1 The court, in the ease of Wheeler, and the jury, in the case of Van Orden, found that they met the definition of a “sexually violent predator” by clear and convincing evidence pursuant to section 632.495, and judgment was entered ordering then1 commitment.

Van Orden and Wheeler appeal them…