In Re the Civil Commitment of W.X.C., SVP 458-07

In this appeal, we consider a challenge to the constitutionality of the New Jersey Sexually Violent Predator Act (SVPA), N.J.S.A. 30:4-27.24 to -27.38. That challenge is both a narrow and specific one in which defendant W.X.C. asserts that the SVPA is unconstitutional as applied to individuals, like himself, who are committed pursuant to its terms when they were not provided with sex offender treatment while incarcerated for their underlying criminal sexual offenses. Defendant bases his constitutional challenge on two related arguments, contending that in those circumstances the SVPA is…