Commonwealth v. Parra

In this case we answer a question left open by our decision in Commonwealth v. Kennedy, 435 Mass. 527, 530 n.3 (2001), concerning deadlines contained in the sexually dangerous person statute, G. L. c. 123A, § 13 (a).1 In the Kennedy case, *263we held that a violation of the statute’s sixty-day commitment and evaluation period required dismissal of the Commonwealth’s petition for civil commitment where there was a fifteen-month delay in the filing of the qualified examiners’ reports. Id. at 528. Although we found that the “period of detention for examination [was] vastly in excess of the maximum…