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...te mental health center. Victims of Young’s attacks were outraged, and also mental health experts. They wanted to testify against Young saying that Young should be in a prison and not a mental health center, but young challenged his confinement through something called a Federal Habeas Petition. The petition claimed that the confinement violated Young’s protection against the Double Jeopardy and Ex Post Facto laws. Double Jeopardy is trying someone more than once for the same criminal offense. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits double jeopardy, but this protection is not absolute. If a mistrial has occured because of procedural error or if a deadlocked jury cannot reach a verdict, the prosecution may retry the accused. The Ex Pose Facto Law is a law that illegalizes specific acts that took place before it was passed. Research through the Washington and federal court system, the Ninth Circuit of Appeals reversed the district’s court saying that the Washington statute was “punitive” ( Law of charachter to punish or vandicate ) in application in Youth’s circumstances thereby violating his protection against Double Jeopardy. However the decision of the Supreme Court reversed the Ninth Court decision by an 8-1 vote. Justice O’conner delivered the opinion of the court along with Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer. Justice Scalia and Souter with a concurring opinion agreed that found in “civil nature” can not be deemed punitive. “No occasion to consider the extent to which a court may look to actual conditions of confinement and implementation of the statute to determine in the first instance whether a confinement scheme is civil in nature.” In majority the justices say that the Washington statute was civil saying that the question of whether it was punitive “as applied” to be false and conspicuously bad. That Young is trying to find loopholes in the system, on which they aren’t any. The majority agreed that the legislative history had shown that the statute to be civil, and also the state. So according to the Justices if the states interpretation says its civil then the justices say i...