State of West Virginia v. Darius Jamal Porter

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• holding that criminal penalties imposed for violating Pennsylvania’s Registration of Sexual Offenders Act were unconstitutionally punitive
• concluding that involuntary commitment statute “does not impose punishment; thus, its application does not raise ex post facto concerns”
• recognizing that states are afforded wide latitude in assessing the risk posed by prior offenders and in fashioning laws designed to provide for public safety
• recognizing that states are afforded wide latitude in assessing the risk posed by prior offenders and in fashioning laws designed to provide for public safety
• holding that the commitment of a sexually violent predator under state statute did not implicate the objectives of criminal punishment
• holding that a civil commitment statute satisfied the Due Process Clause in part because it \plac[ed] the burden of proof upon the State\

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