Commonwealth v. McHoul

This is an appeal from a decision of the Superior Court committing the defendant to the treatment center at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater (Bridgewater) for an indeterminate period of from one day to life as a sexually dangerous person (SDP) under G. L. c. 123A, §§ 1, 6. We affirm that decision.

The defendant pleaded guilty to a 1962 charge of breaking and entering in the daytime with intent to commit rape. In 1967, he pleaded guilty to a charge of assault with intent to rape and was given a twenty-five to thirty-year sentence. He was in custody pursuant to this…