Legal Opinion
Thomas Matherly v. J.F. Andrews
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 8, 2017No. 16-6473PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIAZ, Circuit Judge:
Pursuant to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (the “Adam Walsh Act”), 18 U.S.C. § 4248, the government certified Thomas Matherly as a sexually dangerous person in November 2006. At the time, Matherly was in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (the “BOP”) at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina (“FCI Butner”), serving a 41-month sentence for possession of child pornography. In May 2012, a court in the Eastern District of North Carolina civilly committed Matherly as a sexually dangerous person, and he remains at FCI…
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