Legal Opinion
Doe, Sex Offender Registry Board No. 68549 v. Sex Offender Registry Board
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 5, 2014No. SJC 11562PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLenk, J.
Over a three-year period ending in 1988, when he was sixteen years old, John Doe No. 68549 repeatedly subjected two of his cousins to sexual assaults, including rape. His victims came forward many years after the fact, and in October, 2003, when Doe was thirty-one years old, he pleaded guilty to a number of sex offenses committed when he was a juvenile.
In March, 2006, a hearing examiner of the Sex Offender Registry Board (SORB) determined that Doe posed a moderate risk of reoffense and a moderate degree of dangerousness, and classified Doe as a level two sex offender. A Superior Court judge,…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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- Graham v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 2010
- Commonwealth v. LaniganMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
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3Cited by30 opinions
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