Legal Opinion · Concurrence

In re the Detention of Anderson

Washington Supreme Court

Decided July 9, 2009No. 79111-2Published

1ConcurrenceFairhurst, J.

¶77 (concurring in dissent) — I find I cannot join either the majority or the dissent. I cannot join the majority’s holding that John Charles Anderson’s consensual relationships with four adult men constitute recent overt acts.24 The majority misstates the record, and the conduct at issue is not sufficiently related to Anderson’s diagnosis and pattern of nonconsensual, abusive relationships with children, and inappropriate behavior toward *568women. I cannot join the dissent because it unnecessarily posits a new definition of a recent overt act25 and implies the statutory definition is…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Detention of Marshall v. StateWashington Supreme Court · 2005
  2. In Re Detention of LewisWashington Supreme Court · 2008
  3. In re the Detention of LewisWashington Supreme Court · 2008
  4. In re the Detention of BrotenCourt of Appeals of Washington · 2005
  5. State v. McNuttCourt of Appeals of Washington · 2004

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