Missouri's sexual predator law unconstitutional, inmate says
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January 13, 2017
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — An attorney for a man who served a 25-year prison sentence for rape argued Thursday that a Missouri law allowing him to be subsequently committed indefinitely to a mental institution as a "sexually violent predator" is unconstitutional.
The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments from attorneys for Jay Nelson and the state about its sexually violent predator statute.
The law says that if prisoners have a "mental abnormality" making them act out in a sexually violent way, then they should be evaluated before they leave prison.
If a team of Department of Corrections and...
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