Dennis Strutton v. Linda Meade

SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.

Dennis W. Strutton filed a pro se 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, alleging violations of his Fourteenth Amendment due process rights as a civilly-committed resident of the Missouri Sexual Offender Treatment Center (MSOTC). 1 He now appeals the district court’s 2 adverse judgment entered after a six-day bench trial. We affirm.

I

In 1999, Missouri lawmakers passed the Missouri Sexually Violent Predators Act (MSVPA). Under the MSVPA, those persons who are determined to be a “sexually violent predator” 3 are “committed to the custody of the director of the department of mental…