Inmate says state's sexual-predator law is unconstitutional

Friday, January 13, 2017

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- An attorney for a man who served a 25-year prison sentence for rape argued Thursday a Missouri law allowing him to be committed indefinitely to a mental institution as a "sexually violent predator" is unconstitutional.

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