Legal Opinion
Esteraz
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided September 22, 2016No. AC 15-P-660PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtBlake, J.
After a trial in the Superior Court, the jury returned a verdict finding that the petitioner, Justo Esteraz, remained a sexually dangerous person (SDP) as defined by G. L. c. 123A, § 1. He appeals, arguing that the judge erred by failing to hold a Daubert-Lanigan hearing to determine the admissibility of the results of a risk assessment tool known as the Multisample Age-Stratified Table of Sexual Recidivism Rates (MATS-1), which purports to measure an individual’s likelihood to reoffend. See Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 592-595 (1993); Commonwealth v. Lanigan,…
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- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Commonwealth v. LaniganMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
- Commonwealth v. MelloMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1995
- Warner-Lambert Co. v. Execuquest Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
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- Commonwealth v. BaxterMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2018