In re the Civil Commitment of Navratil

RANDALL, Judge.

I dissent from the majority’s conclusion that the district court did not err in finding that there is clear and convincing evidence that appellant has a disorder or dysfunction within the meaning of the SDP statute. I would also reverse the indeterminate commitment order and address the denial of treatment to appellant since the initial commitment order.

As I have noted in past concurrences and dissents, the SDP statute and its twin, the SPP statute, have, in the words of Justice Wahl, “creatfed] a system of wholesale preventive detention, a concept foreign to our…