In re Care & Treatment of Cone

**321 Matthew Cone seeks review of the Court of Appeals' decision affirming his involuntary commitment under the Kansas Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVPA), K.S.A. 59-29a01 et seq. Cone challenges the Court of Appeals' holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the actuarial tools used to estimate sex offenders' risk of reoffending met the Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , 509 U.S. 579 , 113 S.Ct. 2786 , 125 L.Ed.2d 469 (1993), standard for admissibility of expert testimony. Cone also contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the…