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DAVIS, PETITIONER

383 Mass. 645 (1981)

421 N.E.2d 441

RALPHE E. DAVIS, petitioner.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Courtney for the petitioner.

Michael J. Traft, Assistant District Attorney (Peter Muse, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

The petitioner, adjudicated a sexually dangerous person in 1961, filed in the Superior Court in 1977 a petition for discharge from the treatment center of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater (center). This petition was denied after a hearing in 1978. The petitioner challenges G.L.c. 123A, §§ 1 and 9, as unconstitutionally vague, and contends as well that the Commonwealth failed...

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