Legal Opinion

ELI PARISEAU

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided January 5, 2023Published

1Opinion of the Court

PARISEAU, 102 Mass. App. Ct. 67

ELI PARISEAU, petitioner.

102 Mass. App. Ct. 67

October 3, 2022 - January 5, 2023

Court Below: Superior Court, Berkshire County

Present: Sacks, Hand, & Grant, JJ.

No. 21-P-552.

Sex Offender. Constitutional Law, Sex offender, Self-incrimination. Evidence, Sex offender. Practice, Civil, Sex offender, Directed verdict.

At the trial of a petition, filed pursuant to G. L. c. 123A, § 9, for discharge from civil commitment as a sexually dangerous person, the judge did not err in admitting evidence of the petitioner's nonparticipation in sex offender treatment, where there was…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Kansas v. HendricksSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
  2. Kansas v. CraneSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
  3. Commonwealth v. AlphasMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1999
  4. Commonwealth v. PlattMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
  5. DutilMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002

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