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In re Detention of Kortte

Case Date: 10/24/2000
Court: 2nd District Appellate
Docket No: 2-99-0701  Rel

24 October 2000

No. 2--99--0701

IN THE

APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS

SECOND DISTRICT

In re DETENTION OF DONALD
KORTTE


(The People of the State of
Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee,
v. Donald Kortte, Respondent-
Appellant).		 )
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)		 Appeal from the Circuit Court
of McHenry County.

No. 98--MR--220

Honorable
Michael J. Sullivan,
Judge, Presiding.

JUSTICE McLAREN delivered the opinion of the court:

Respondent, Donald Kortte, appeals the trial court's ordercommitting him pursuant to the Sexually Violent Persons CommitmentAct (Act) (725 ILCS 207/1 et seq. (West 1998)). He argues thatsection 30(c) of the Act (725 ILCS 207/30(c) (West 1998))unconstitutionally prevented him from calling an expert witness athis trial. Specifically, he contends that the provision (1)deprived him of due process of law (U.S. Const., amend. XIV; Ill.Const. 1970, art. I,