Legal Opinion
Baxstrom v. Herold
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 23, 1966No. 219PublishedCited by 742 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Warren
We granted certiorari in this case to consider the constitutional validity of the statutory procedure under which petitioner was committed to a mental institution at the expiration of his criminal sentence in a state prison.
Petitioner, Johnnie K. Baxstrom, was convicted of second degree assault in April 1959 and was sentenced to a term of two and one-half to three years in a New York prison. On June 1, 1961, he was certified as insane by a prison physician. He was then transferred from prison to Dannemora State Hospital, an institution under the jurisdiction and control of the New York…
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