Commonwealth v. Husband

After a five-day bench trial, a Superior Court judge found the defendant, David Husband, to be a sexually dangerous person (SDP) and committed him to the Massachusetts Treatment Center for a period of one day to life. G. L. c. 123A, §§ 12-14. Husband challenges the sufficiency of the evidence for that finding. As a distinctive contention, he argues that the evidence failed to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that a statutorily required “personality disorder” made him likely to commit further sexual offenses; and that the evidence demonstrated, instead, that prolonged solitary confinement,…