Commonwealth v. Pariseau

In Commonwealth v. Blake, 454 Mass. 267, 281 (2009) (Blake), the Supreme Judicial Court adopted a thirty-day deadline for the issuance of a decision following a jury-waived trial in a sexually dangerous person (SDP) proceeding pursuant to G. L. c. 123A, § 14, without specifying a particular remedy if the deadline were missed. In the instant case, the defendant, Eli Pariseau, was found to be an SDP at such a jury-waived *706trial, but the decision did not issue for four months.1 On appeal, the defendant argues that there was insufficient evidence for the judge to find him sexually dangerous beyond…