Poulin

In these discharge proceedings under G. L. c. 123A, § 9, as amended through St. 1966, c. 608,1 there was a considerable split of professional authority. Two psychiatrists and the assistant administrator of the center for the treatment of the sexually dangerous at M.C.I., Bridgewater (center),2 opined that Ronald J. Poulin was a sexually dangerous person (SDP). Two psychiatrists and a psychologist gave their opinions that he was not an SDP. The Superior Court judge who conducted the § 9 hearing found that Poulin’s misconduct in sexual matters indicates a general lack of power to control his…