In Re Detention of Willis

CARTER, justice.

Damon Montez Willis, a convicted sex offender, appeals from orders in a subsequent civil proceeding finding him to be a sexually violent predator and committing him as such. He asserts on appeal that (1) the district court lacked jurisdiction to impose a civil commitment because the State failed to follow necessary statutory procedures, (2) the civil commitment proceeding could not be brought against him at the time it was commenced because he had not yet been convicted of a sexually violent offense, (3) he could not be found to be a sexual predator in'the absence of a recent…