Rick v. Harpstead

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA DARRIN SCOTT RICK, Case No. 19-CV-2827 (NEB/DTS) Petitioner, v. AMENDED ORDER ON REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION JODI HARPSTEAD, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, Respondent. In what the parties agree was a very close case, a Minnesota court civilly committed Petitioner Darrin Scott Rick as a sexually dangerous person in 2004. He has been a patient of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (“MSOP”) ever since. In 2019, Rick petitioned for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. Section 2254, seeking his release from custody based on…