Com. v. Miller

OPINION BY Justice BARBARA MILANO KEENAN.

In this appeal, we consider whether the circuit court erred in qualifying a witness to testify as an expert under the Sexually Violent Predators Act (the Act), Code §§ 37.2-900 through -920. We also consider whether the circuit court erred in concluding that the Commonwealth failed to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant is a sexually violent predator as defined by the Act.

In 1994, Ronald Miller was convicted in the Circuit Court of Chesterfield County (circuit court) of forcible sodomy for conduct that occurred several years…