U.S. Supreme Court: SEX OFFENDER.

• Position: Brief Article

Seling v. Young, 121 S.Ct. 727(2001). An inmate who was being held under a state sexually violent predator statute petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus challenging the constitutionality of the law. The case eventually reached the United States Supreme Court, which held that the state supreme court's prior determination that the statute was civil rather than criminal precluded the inmates double jeopardy and ex post facto challenge based on conditions of confinement. According to the Court, there is no federal...