In re the Detention of Strand

*908¶1 — John Leonard Strand appeals his commitment as a sexually violent predator (SVP)1 arguing that (1) he had a constitutional right to counsel at a chapter 71.09 RCW psychological evaluation conducted before the State filed a petition to have him adjudicated as an SVP and before the required probable cause hearing, (2) his counsel’s failure to object to either the prefiling or the postfiling psychological evaluations constituted ineffective assistance of counsel, and (3) the court’s failure to record the testimony of his expert witness deprived him of an official record of that portion of…