State v. Stout

¶ 1 Roy Donald Stout, Jr., appeals his commitment as a sexually violent predator. He argues, among other things, that the State was required to re-prove at his commitment hearing that he committed burglary, which was the crime that he was incarcerated for when the State filed a commitment petition under chapter 71.09 RCW. We hold that the State was not required to re-prove that Stout *24committed burglary. It was required to prove only that the burglary was sexually motivated. Further, Stout’s counsel was not ineffective, and the superior court’s findings are supported by sufficient evidence. We…