In Re Detention of Gavin

Respondent Edward Gavin filed this interlocutory appeal from an order of the circuit court denying his motion to dismiss the State’s sexually violent persons commitment petition. On appeal, he contends that the circuit court should have dismissed the petition because it was untimely. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

In this appeal, we interpret the meaning of section 15(b — 5) of the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act (Act) (725 ILCS 207/ 15(b — 5) (West 2004)), as it applied to respondent in 2006. That section provided in pertinent part that a petition alleging that a person was a sexually violent…