State of New York v. Rashid

Graffeo, J. (dissenting).

In 1988, after respondent Mustafa Rashid was released from a Texas prison, he forcibly raped one woman and sodomized another during an armed invasion of a residence in New York. Released on parole in 1999, Rashid subsequently burglarized a woman’s apartment, brandished a weapon, sexually assaulted the woman and her eight-month-old daughter, and then threatened to kill them. Rashid was reincarcerated and prior to the completion of his sentence, the State instituted civil commitment proceedings against him pursuant to article 10 of the Mental Hygiene Law because he was *20c…