Legal Opinion
United States v. Shields
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 11, 2011No. 09-1330PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Jeffrey Shields was convicted in 2002 by a federal court for possession of child pornography. In 2006, a day before his scheduled release from custody, the Bureau of Prisons filed a petition in the District Court for the District of Massachusetts to have Shields civilly committed as a “sexually dangerous person” under the authority of 18 U.S.C. § 4248. After a ten-day bench trial with an advisory jury, during which the court heard evidence of Shields’s history of child molestation as well as opinions from several clinical psychologists on the risk that Shields would…
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