Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act
Respondent, who had previously been convicted of sexually violent offenses, was found by a jury to be a sexually violent person and committed to DHS. Experts are not prohibited from relying on underlying behaviors manifested during prior offenses in diagnosis of a certain mental disorder. The question of whether weight of evidence and credibility of witnesses proved that Respondent was a sexually violent person was ultimately responsibility of jury. (REYES, concurring; GORDON, specially concurring.)