Legal Opinion · Concurrence

In Re the Care & Treatment of Sykes

Supreme Court of Kansas

Decided February 19, 2016No. 108856Published

1ConcurrenceJohnson, J.

Given the United States Supreme Courts majority holding in Kansas v. Hendricks, 521 U.S. 346, 369, 117 S. Ct. 2072, 138 L. Ed. 2d 501 (1997), as confirmed by *828this court in In re Care & Treatment of Hay, 263 Kan. 822, 831, 953 P.2d 666 (1998), coupled with the statutory provision in K.S.A. 59-29a07(g), permitting a district court to determine whether a person committed the criminal acts necessary to meet the definition of a sexually violent predator notwithstanding that person having been adjudicated incompetent to stand trial, I feel compelled to concur in the majority’s result in this case.…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Mathews v. EldridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  2. In Re GAULTSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  3. Addington v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  4. Kansas v. HendricksSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
  5. Foucha v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1992

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