Herbert J. Varner v. Tom Monohan, Director, Illinois Department of Human Services

How courts have described this case

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• holding that commitment of people convicted of sex offenses implicates “neither fundamental rights nor suspect classes”
• holding that a finding that respondent has serious difficulty controlling behavior is implicit in jury's finding that it was \'substantially probable'\ that respondent would engage in future sexually violent acts
• commenting that 16 Crane did not disturb the Supreme Court’s holding that persons with mental defects and 17 dangerous proclivities may constitutionally be civilly committed
• suggesting that the Hendricks/Crane serious-difficulty standard is not a “‘clearly established’ rule that the state judiciary could transgress.”
• conclusion that defendant had serious difficulty in controlling behavior implicit in jury’s finding that it was “substantially probable” that defendant would engage in future acts of sexual violence
• “Where ... a person’s difficulty in controlling his behavior must fall remains open to decision one case at a time, and this implies the absence of a ‘clearly established’ rule that the state judiciary could transgress.”

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