In re the Detention of Martin

¶1 The State committed Sheldon Martin as a sexually violent predator based on two sexually violent offenses he committed in Oregon. Washington’s sexually violent predator law (ch. 71.09 RCW) includes out-of-state convictions of sexually violent offenses as a basis for a commitment petition but authorizes only a specific prosecutor to file the petition: “the prosecuting attorney of the county where the person was convicted or charged or the attorney general if requested by the prosecuting attorney . . . ,”1 The superior court denied Martin’s motion to dismiss the petition for want of statutory…