Blum v. Schmitt

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI EASTERN DIVISION ROGER BLUM, ) ) Petitioner, ) ) v. ) Case No. 4:18 CV 1203 CDP ) DAVID SCHMITT, ) ) Respondent. ) MEMORANDUM AND ORDER Petitioner Roger Blum is civilly committed in the custody of the Missouri Department of Mental Health, having been found by a jury to be a sexually violent predator under Missouri’s Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVP Act),

Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 632.480, et seq. He brings this petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, arguing that his judgment and commitment under the SVP Act was…