In Re the Care & Treatment of Calleja

KATHIANNE KNAUP CRANE, Presiding Judge.

Respondent, Javier Calleja, appeals from the judgment entered on a jury verdict committing him to the Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH) as a sexually violent predator. Respondent challenges the probate court’s exclusion of evidence of respondent’s immigration status and any deportation order. We affirm.

While respondent was serving a five-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to first-degree statutory sodomy, the state filed a petition with the probate court to involuntarily commit respondent as a sexually violent predator pursuant to…