In Re Detention of Hennings

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• disposing of an equal protection claim with a threshold similarly situated analysis, but within that threshold analysis evaluating the relationship of the state's interest and the classification made by the statute
• finding no equal protection violation in denying a right to a bench trial in a sexually violent predator proceeding but not a criminal case
• finding no equal protection violation in denying a right to a bench trial in a sexually 49 violent predator proceeding but not a criminal case
• noting the jury was free to reject the testimony of Hennings’s expert witnesses and instead to accept the testimony of the State’s expert witness
• noting the jury was free to reject the testimony of Hennings’s expert witnesses and instead to accept the testimony of the State’s expert witness
• declining to consider substantive independent state standards when parties did not suggest how state standard should be different from federal model

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