In Re Detention of Gonzales

LARSON, Justice.

This is an appeal by Jessie J. Gonzales from a district court order, following a jury trial, for his confinement as a sexually violent predator under Iowa Code chapter 229A (2001). We conclude Gonzales did not meet the statutory criteria for adjudication as a sexually violent predator and therefore reverse the order for confinement.

I. Facts and Prior Proceedings.

In 1981 Gonzales pled guilty to sexual abuse in the second degree and was sentenced to prison. In 1994 he pled guilty to two counts of indecent contact with a child and was placed on probation. His probation was…