Department of Corrections v. Superior Court

District Attorney David W. Crook and the Maine Civil Liberties Union (MCLU) 1 challenge a judgment- entered in the Supreme Judicial Court (Wathen, C.J.) granting extraordinary relief in favor of the Department of Corrections (the Department). The Supreme Judicial Court found that the Superior Court had exceeded its statutory authority by imposing five “Special Conditions of Judgment and Commitment” 2 on sentences imposed on two convicted, borderline mentally retarded, child sexual offenders. Accordingly, the Court ordered the Superior Court to delete the conditions. The appellants argue that…