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COMMONWEALTH v. KENNEDY

435 Mass. 527 (2001)

COMMONWEALTH v. SHAWN KENNEDY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

December 28, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Dunphy Farris, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Nona E. Walker, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

IRELAND, J.

The day before the defendant, Shawn Kennedy, was scheduled to be released from prison, the Commonwealth filed a petition under G. L. c. 123A for his civil commitment as a sexually dangerous person, and he was not released. Three weeks later, on March 16, 2000, a judge in the Superior Court found probable cause to believe that the defendant was sexually dangerous and, pursuant to G. L. c. 123A, § 13 (a...

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