U.S. Supreme Court: SEX OFFENDER.

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 inmate's double jeopardy and ex post facto challenge based an conditions of confinement. According to the...