In Re the Commitment of Browning

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• holding that, “because of its evidentiary importance, we cannot say that the trial court abused its discretion by failing to rule that any ‘unfair prejudice’ raised by his prior convictions substantially outweighed its probative value”
• holding that “[a] person’s history of sexually violent conduct is highly relevant to whether he suffers from a behavioral abnormality that makes it difficult for him to control his impulses to commit sexually violent offenses”
• “[W]e note that any incidental, marginal deterrent effect of Texas’s outpatient-treatment and monitoring scheme will necessarily be less than any deterrence effected by Kansas’s scheme of confinement.”
• purpose of the statute is not only to protect the public, but also to provide treatment for such diffieult-to-treat conditions

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