State v. Stout

¶l — Following a bench trial, Roy Donald Stout, Jr., was committed as a sexually violent predator. He argues that the trial court’s commitment decision should be reversed and that this court should remand for a new commitment trial because: (1) he should have been given the opportunity to relitigate the facts comprising the burglary conviction upon which his commitment was based, (2) his constitutional right to confront an adverse witness was violated when the State offered and the trial court admitted the deposition testimony of his burglary victim in lieu of live testimony, (3) he received…