Commonwealth v. Bradway

The respondent, Stephen Bradway, appeals from a *281judgment and order of the Superior Court finding him a sexually dangerous person and committing him to the treatment center for sexually dangerous persons. On appeal, the respondent claims that the trial judge committed error by admitting in evidence expert opinion testimony from the statutorily mandated “qualified examiners.” The respondent claims the judge should have subjected the testimony to a Daubert-Lanigan1 assessment and excluded it as unreliable. The respondent also contends that the Commonwealth failed to prove that he is likely to…