Legal Opinion
In Re Trivento
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided December 4, 1973No. 127-72PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDaley, J.
On May 12, 1967, the appellant, Edward L. Trivento, entered a plea of guilty in the Chittenden County Court to the charge of manslaughter, a violation of 13 V.S.A. § 2304. The court then ordered the appellant committed to the Vermont State Hospital at Waterbury, Vermont, for the purpose of examination to determine whether he was a psychopathic personality defined at that time as:
[T]hose persons who by a habitual course of misconduct in sexual matters have evidenced an utter lack of power to control their sexual impulses, and who, as a result, are likely to attack or otherwise inflict injury,…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Brooks v. BrooksSupreme Court of Vermont · 1973
- Charles H. Baldwin v. Robert G. Smith, as Warden of the Vermont State Prison, Windsor, VermontCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1971
- In Re ShequinSupreme Court of Vermont · 1973
- In Re BashawSupreme Court of Vermont · 1971
- State v. NewellSupreme Court of Vermont · 1967
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Trivento v. Commissioner of CorrectionsSupreme Court of Vermont · 1977
- State v. MoquinSupreme Court of Vermont · 1980