Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Major
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 5, 1968PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhittemore, J.
The defendant contends that the proceedings for his commitment under G. L. c. 123A, § 6, as a sexually dangerous person, while serving a sentence for an unrelated crime, were in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States in that he was denied equal protection of the laws. The defendant recognizes that in Peterson, petitioner, ante, 110, this issue was adjudicated adversely to his contention. We see no ground for overruling that decision.
The statute permits a trial and determination of whether a person is sexually dangerous only as to those who have been…
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- Goesaert v. ClearySupreme Court of the United States · 1948
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