State v. Law

¶1 Dennis Law appeals the trial court’s order of civil commitment based on a jury’s finding that he is a sexually violent predator (SVP). He argues that (1) the trial court’s exclusion of impeachment evidence and expert testimony on false confessions deprived him of his rights to confrontation and to present a defense, (2) the trial court deprived him of due process by admitting his statements to a polygrapher without determining that they were voluntary, (3) the presumption of innocence and the corpus delicti rule apply in SVP proceedings, and (4) the prosecutor committed misconduct by…