Legal Opinion
Doe v. Attorney General
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 17, 1997PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, C.J.
Before us, on a report by a judge of the Superior Court on a statement of agreed facts, are challenges to the constitutionality of the registration and notification requirements *137of the sex offender act (G. L. c. 6, §§ 178C-1780) as applied to the plaintiff who has been convicted of indecent assault and battery.
The plaintiff contends that the act’s automatic classification of him as a level one sex offender deprives him of procedural due process in violation of the State and Federal Constitutions. He also argues that the act as applied to him constitutes punishment in violation of State and…
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