Kakuk v. State

Appellant, Gustav Kakuk, is currently committed under the Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act (“the Act”).1 He appeals the order denying his petition for release from the Florida Civil Commitment Center. The issue presented is whether the trial court erred by weighing the evidence presented at Kakuk’s limited probable cause hearing.2

After being convicted of several predicate offenses, Kakuk was civilly committed under the Act in 2004. Kakuk petitioned for release several times; most recently, in January 2014. As evidence of his change in condition, Kakuk presented a…