Legal Opinion

EDWARD PIERCE

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided January 13, 2025No. 23-P-931Published

1Opinion of the Court

APPEALS COURT

EDWARD PIERCE, petitioner

Docket:

23-P-931

Dates:

September 6, 2024 - January 13, 2025

Present:

Sacks, Englander, & Grant, JJ.

County:

Plymouth

Keywords:

Habeas Corpus. Practice, Civil, Civil commitment, Sex offender, Appeal, Dismissal of appeal. Sex Offender. Evidence, Opinion, Sex offender

Petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed in the Superior Court Department on February 16, 2023.

The case was heard by Michael A. Cahillane, J.

Mary P. Murray for the respondent.

Joseph M. Kenneally for the petitioner.

SACKS, J. After a Superior Court judge allowed his 2023 petition for a writ of habeas…

2Cases cited43 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. RandolphMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
  2. Commonwealth v. BrunoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
  3. AndrewsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
  4. DeJoinville v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
  5. Commonwealth v. RembiszewskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984

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