Care & Treatment of Dunivan v. State

DANIEL E. SCOTT, Judge.

Donnie Dunivan challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his commitment under the sexually violent predator (“SVP”) law, RSMo §§ 632.480-.513. We affirm.

Dunivan was convicted of misdemeanor child molestation in 1978. In 1984, he pled guilty in Arkansas to raping a 14-year-old boy and was imprisoned. Shortly after his Arkansas prison release, he was arrested and jailed in Missouri for promoting prostitution. He then forcibly sodomized a 16-year-old jail inmate, pled guilty to that charge, and was imprisoned again. 1

As Dunivan’s release date approached, the…