Legal Opinion
Battista v. Clarke
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 20, 2011No. 10-1965PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
In 1983, in state court in Massachusetts, Sandy Battista (born “David Megarry”) was convicted of the rape of a child, robbery, and kidnapping. After serving that sentence, Battista was involuntarily committed in 2003 in a civil proceeding, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 123A, § 14 (2008), to the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons (“Treatment Center”). Such persons are held civilly without limit in time until adjudged safe for release. Id. §§ 9,14.
The Treatment Center, for which the Massachusetts Department of Correction (“the Department”) is responsible,…
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