Legal Opinion
People Ex Rel. Joseph II v. Superintendent of Southport Correctional Facility
New York Court of Appeals
Decided June 15, 2010No. 95, 96PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Smith, J.
Article 10 of the Mental Hygiene Law, enacted in 2007, provides that certain imprisoned sex offenders may be transferred to mental hospitals, rather than being released, when their prison terms expire. The statute raises important questions concerning the procedural and substantive rights of the prisoners to whom it applies, but those questions are not before us in this case. We have here the narrower issue of whether the statute applies to a particular class of prisoners: those who were incarcerated for violating the conditions of a term of postrelease…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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