Coe Will Appeal Commitment Verdict

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Shelly Monaghan hugs the attornies that presented the case of the civil commitment of Kevin Coe after the jury verdict found him to be a violent offender and approved his incarceration this afternoon.

Kevin Coe will appeal today’s jury verdict that he is a sexually violent predator, his attorney says. “We’ll just file a notice of appeal and go from there,” Tim Trageser said. Coe himself had no comment as he was led back to jail by armed deputies. The biggest challenge in this case, as in all sexually violent predator cases, is having the jury hear evidence that wouldn’t normally be admitted in a trial, Trageser said/Rick Bonino & Karen Dorn Steele, SR. More here .

* Coe hold keys to his cell door /Coe Blog
Question: Is this a fair verdict?