Whether Minnesota's indefinite sex offender civil commitment scheme violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights

QUESTION PRESENTED The question presented is whether Minnesota’s indefinite sex “ offender civil commitment scheme violates Petitioner’s Fourteenth Amendment’s due process rights. In 1994, Minnesota enacted an indefinite sex offender civil commitment scheme confining more than 700 people — the highest per capita commitment rate in the country. Because of the fundamental liberty interests infringed by civil commitment, the lower courts improperly applied found e Petitioner met the statutory criteria largely because as written, the statutes require all relevant evidence, even if unreliable would no longer satisfy the standard for commitment. Due to this flaw, the state does not know, and cannot demonstrate, whether Petitioner met the commitment standard.