Legal Opinion
Davis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 2, 1981PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
The petitioner, adjudicated a sexually dangerous person in 1961, filed in the Superior Court in 1977 a petition for discharge from the treatment center of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater (center). This petition was denied after a hearing in 1978. The petitioner challenges G. L. c. 123A, §§ 1 and 9, as unconstitutionally vague, and contends as well that the Commonwealth failed to sustain its burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that he was sexually dangerous at the time of the 1978 hearing. We hold that G. L. c. 123A, §§ 1 and 9, are not unconstitutionally…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- United States v. MazurieSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Commonwealth v. GallantMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- AndrewsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Commonwealth v. LambMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Richard L. Balthazar v. Superior Court of the Commonwealth of MassachusettsCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1978
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3Cited by14 opinions
- McHoulMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2005
- WyattMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
- GagnonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
- ThompsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
- Page v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1982
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