State v. Purifoy (In re Commitment of Purifoy)

¶1 Randy Purifoy, pro se , appeals from an order of the circuit court that denied his petition for discharge from commitment under WIS. STAT. ch. 980 (2017-18).1 Purifoy complains that the circuit court erroneously refused to hold an evidentiary hearing on his pretrial motion, erroneously excluded a treatment progress report as a trial exhibit, and erroneously credited the testimony of one expert over that of two other experts. We reject Purifoy's challenges and affirm the circuit court's order.

BACKGROUND

¶2 In 1976, when Purifoy was fifteen years old, he raped and killed a woman. By his own…