COMMONWEALTH
v.
LAWRENCE A. BRUNO.
COMMONWEALTH
v.
CARLOS L. DAVILA.
COMMONWEALTH
v.
JAMES D. WILSON (and a consolidated case).
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Middlesex.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 2, 2000.
September 29, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Gail M. McKenna, Kimberly M. Diaz, & Margaret A. Peterson, Assistant District Attorneys (Sean Gordon, Assistant District Attorney, with them) for the Commonwealth.
Nona E. Walker, Committee for Public Counsel Services (Anne E. Gowen & Stan Goldman, Committee for Public Counsel Services, with her) for the defendants.
The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:
John Reinstein, Mark J. Gillis, Stan Goldman, Gary Rothberger, & Peter Costanza for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts & others.
Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, Joseph T. Thai, & Pamela L. Hunt, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Attorney General & others.
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Middlesex.
SPINA, J.
In these cases, we decide whether the provisions of G. L. c. 123A, as amended through St. 1999, c. 74, §§ 3-8,1 that provide for the civil commitment of sexually dangerous persons, apply to persons such as the three defendants, whose convictions of sexual offenses predate September 10, 1999, the effective date of St. 1999, c. 74. On September 10, 1999, each of the defendants was serving his respective sentence on the...
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