Legal Opinion
Andrews
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 13, 1975PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQuirico, J.
This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus originally filed with the clerk of this court for Suffolk County and reserved and reported to the full court by a single justice, without decision, on the petition and a stipulation of facts. The petitioner seeks his release from the treatment center at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater (Bridgewater) to which he has been committed by order of a Superior Court judge, acting under G. L. c. 123A, § 6, for an indeterminate period of from one day to life as a sexually dangerous person (SDP). G. L. c. 123A, § 1. We review the…
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