Com. v. Garrett

OPINION BY Justice LAWRENCE L. KOONTZ, JR.

This is an interlocutory appeal from a civil proceeding brought by the Commonwealth under the Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA), Code § 37.2-900 et seq., seeking to have Marvin Darryl Garrett committed as a sexually violent predator. We consider whether the circuit court correctly ruled that Code § 16.1-306, as applicable to Garrett, prohibited the Commonwealth's use in the SVPA proceeding of records relating to proceedings involving Garrett in a juvenile and domestic relations district court when he was a minor. We further consider whether the…