Karsjens v. Jesson

FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND ORDER

DONOVAN W. FRANK, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

This case challenges the constitutionality of the statutes governing civil commitment and treatment of sex offenders in Minnesota as written and as applied, and in so doing, challenges the boundaries that we the people set on the notions of individual liberty and freedom, the bedrock principles embedded in the United States Constitution. As has been long recognized, the government may involuntarily detain an individual outside of the criminal justice system through the so-called “civil commitment”…