Martin v. Bartow

OPINION AND ORDER

BARBARA B. CRABB, District Judge.

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Stanley Martin, who is presently confined at the Wisconsin Resource Center in Mauston, Wisconsin, is serving an indefinite term of confinement under Wisconsin’s sexually violent person civil commitment provision, Chapter 980. His custody is the result of a final order entered by the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County on December 3,1996. He alleges that he is in custody in violation of the laws and Constitution of the United States because his continued…