Legal Opinion
United States v. Wetmore
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 5, 2016No. 15-1522PPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act (the Act) allows the federal government to seek civil commitment of any “sexually dangerous person” already in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). See 18 U.S.C. § 4248(a). Pursuant to the Act, an individual is deemed to be sexually dangerous (and thus unfit to be safely returned to the community) if the government can prove by clear and convincing evidence that the individual “has engaged or attempted to engage in sexually violent conduct or child molestation”; “suffers from a serious mental illness, abnormality, or…
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