Legal Opinion
Cass County State's Attorney v. E.W.F.
North Dakota Supreme Court
Decided June 26, 2008No. 20080037PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAPSNER, Justice.
[¶ 1] E.W.F. appeals an order denying his petition for discharge from commitment as a sexually dangerous individual. We affirm.
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[¶ 2] In 1994, E.W.F., then twenty-one years old, molested his five-year-old niece. He pled guilty to gross sexual imposition on September 14, 1995 and was sentenced to prison. On September 1, 1998, he was committed to the North Dakota State Hospital (“State Hospital”) as a sexually dangerous individual.
[¶ 3] From 1999 to 2006, E.W.F. waived his statutory right to annually petition for discharge from the State Hospital. On September 20, 2007, E.W.F.…
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