New Jersey’s Supreme Court on Monday gave the state the power to lock up for life a man adjudged a sexually violent predator based on prior offenses not in themselves violent.
A divided court, in In the Matter of the Civil Commitment of J.M.B ., A-79-07, said the Sexually Violent Predator Act allows judges to order civil commitment based on clear and convincing evidence that the predicate offenses belie conduct “substantially equivalent” to a crime enumerated in the statute.
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