In re the Detention of Ronald Tripp

MANSFIELD, Justice (concurring in part and dissenting in part).

I respectfully concur in part and dissent in part. The majority correctly determines that Ronald Tripp was not "presently confined" for a sexually violent offense at the time the State filed its sexually violent predator (SVP) petition. However, there is substantial evidence that Tripp committed a "recent overt act" - namely, the attempted sexual abuse of a woman in 2013. This was the State's alternative ground for SVP

*420commitment of Tripp. The district court failed to make a finding here only because it didn't think it had to.…