Harris v. Com.

688 S.E.2d 279 (2010)

Gordon H. HARRIS

v.

COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Record No. 090655.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 15, 2010.

John W. Parsons, Independence, for appellant.

Pamela A. Sargent, Senior Assistant Attorney General (William C. Mims, Attorney General; Frank S. Ferguson, Deputy Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.

OPINION BY Justice CYNTHIA D. KINSER.

Pursuant to the Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act (the Act), Code §§ 37.2-900 through -920, the Commonwealth filed a petition seeking to have Gordon H. Harris classified as a sexually violent…