Justice SLATER delivered the opinion of the court:
Defendant Stanley Parrott was committed to the Department of Corrections in 1975 under the provisions of the Sexually Dangerous Persons Act (the Act) (Ill.Rev. Stat.1975, ch. 38, par. 105-1.01 et seq.). In 1977, after the Illinois Supreme Court held that the standard of proof necessary for commitment under the Act was proof beyond a reasonable doubt (see People v. Pembrock (1976),
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