Commonwealth v. Hall

On March 17, 1977, the superintendent of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord, where the defendant was then incarcerated, filed a motion under the first paragraph of G. L. c. 123A, § 6 (as amended through St. 1974, c. 324, §§ 2, 3), to commit the defendant to the treatment center at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater "for examination and diagnosis for a period not exceeding sixty days.” The motion was allowed, and the defendant was examined at Bridgewater by two psychiatrists, who subsequently filed a report as required by G. L. c. 123A, § 4 (as amended…