Commonwealth v. Denham

The defendant has appealed from a 1978 decision of the Superior Court, rendered at the conclu*725sion of proceedings conducted under the provisions of G. L. c. 123A, § 5, which resulted in the defendant’s being committed as a sexually dangerous person1 (SDP) to the treatment center established at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater (center) for the indeterminate statutory period of one day to life. The following is a summary of the relevant proceedings, as gleaned from the docket entries and the portions of the record which have been reproduced in the appendix to the…