Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Burgess
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 8, 2008PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
In Commonwealth v. Nieves, 446 Mass. 583, 590-591 (2006), we considered the constitutionality of G. L. *367c. 123A, § 14, that provision of our sexually dangerous person statute that authorizes the maintenance of civil commitment proceedings against an incompetent individual who has been convicted of a sexual offense. We held in the Nieves decision that “[d]ue process is not offended by subjecting [an incompetent] defendant, with the assistance of counsel, to trial of the Commonwealth’s [G. L. c. 123A] petition as provided in § 14.” Id. at 591. We granted the defendant’s application for direct…
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