Reuben Adams v. Byran Bartow

FLAUM, Chief Judge.

Reuben Adams was committed to the custody of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services after a jury found him eligible for confinement pursuant to the state’s Sexually Violent Person Commitments Statute, Wis. Stat. ch. 980. Adams then petitioned for a writ of federal habeas corpus, see 28 U.S.C. § 2254, but the district court denied relief. We affirm.

I. Background

Adams’s history of sexual misconduct dates back to 1982, when he received a probationary sentence after being convicted of third-degree sexual assault on a sixteen-year-old girl. Eight years later…