Joelson v. O'KEEFE

(concurring specially)-

I concur in the result. The result, to me, is the continued “preventive detention” of the five appellants, not for any crimes they have committed, as they have already served all of the lengthy sentences imposed for those crimes, but preventive detention because of a public policy decision that “they might do it again in the future.”

I correctly predicted in In re Linehan that the case was just one more step in a continuing round of steps to sidestep the Bill of Rights and keep people committed under the Sexual Psychopathic Personality Commitment Act (SPP) and/or the…