Abdulla Ibn Yahya v. Commonwealth

The petitioner, Abdulla Ibn Yahya (“Yahya"), is a resident of the Massachusetts Treatment Center for sexually dangerous persons (“Treatment Center”) in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Yahya filed this pro se writ of habeas corpus claiming that his continued confinement under G.L.c. 123A, as amended by St. 1990, c. 150, §304 and by St. 1993, c. 489, §1, violates his constitutional rights to Due Process, Equal Protection, and violates his constitutional rights to be free from Double Jeopardy and Ex Post Facto punishment. The respondent, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, moves to dismiss this…