# State v. Carpenter

> Wisconsin Supreme Court · December 8, 1995 · 197 Wis. 2d 252

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9577641

## Case

- **Full name:** State of Wisconsin, Petitioner-Appellant, v. William Carpenter, Respondent-Respondent; State of Wisconsin, Petitioner-Appellant, v. William A. Schmidt, Respondent-Respondent
- **Court:** Wisconsin Supreme Court
- **Decided:** December 8, 1995
- **Citations:** 197 Wis. 2d 252; 541 N.W.2d 105; 1995 Wisc. LEXIS 122
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Abrahamson
- **Judges:** Ann Walsh Bradley
- **Cited by:** 110 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding, under Wisconsin’s sexually violent person statute, that the state need not produce evidence of a recent overt act to prove the probability of future acts of sexual violence if the committed person was incarcerated at the time the state filed the commitment petition, e…
- finding that Wisconsin statute establishing a civil commitment procedure primarily intended to protect the public and provide concentrated treatment to convicted sexually violent persons does not violate either the Ex Post Facto or Double Jeopardy Clauses of the Wisconsin or U…
- concluding that Chapter 980 is “primarily intended to protect the public and to provide concentrated treatment to convicted sexually violent persons, not to punish the sexual offender”
- holding that ch. 980 is not a punitive statute and violates neither the ex post facto nor double jeopardy clauses of the Wisconsin and United States constitutions
- concluding that treatment of mental illness is a primary goal of legislature in requiring civil commitment for sexually violent persons

## Opinion text

SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, J.
(dissenting). I dissent for the reasons set forth in State v. Post, 197 Wis. 2d 279 , 541 N.W.2d 115 (1995), of even date.

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