In re The Detention of White

Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act
Citation
Case Number: 
2016 IL App (1st) 151187
Decision Date: 
Friday, September 16, 2016
District: 
1st Dist.
Division/County: 
Cook Co., 5th Div.
Holding: 
Affirmed.
Justice: 
LAMPKIN

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.)