United States Seventh Circuit

District court's denial of defendant's petition for habeas relief is affirmed where: 1) defendant's challenge to the paraphillia NOS nonconsent diagnosis, claiming it was so lacking in scientific validity that to rely upon it for civil commitment amounts to a denial of due process, is rejected; 2) the scientific validity of APD is not so patently lacking that consideration of it in a civil commitment proceeding violates due process; and 3) defendant's argument that an expert's testimony was so unreliable that it would have been inadmissible in a federal proceeding under Daubert is rejected.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/19/2010
• Published 03/19/2010

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• United States Seventh Circuit

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