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``There are going to be some individuals who are going to be released into our communities on parole who I think will be moved over to civil commitment because they're going to be identified as sexually violent predators,'' he said. Police said in their reports that he was serving a civil commitment as a repeat sexual offender with convictions in California, Colorado and Arizona. Furthermore, issues of mental impairment are important not just in cases where defendants offer insanity pleas but in every context where there is potential for psychiatric coercion, including legally mandated addiction treatment and civil commitment of people deemed a threat to themselves or others. |
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