DRAYTON v. COMMONWEALTH


450 Mass. 1021 (2008)

FREDDIE LEE DRAYTON v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

January 16, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Freddie Lee Drayton, pro se.

Nancy Ankers White, Special Assistant Attorney General, & Mary P. Murray for the Commonwealth.


Freddie Lee Drayton appeals from a judgment of a single justice of this court denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. G. L. c. 248, § 1. We affirm.

In 1980, while serving prison sentences for two convictions of manslaughter, Drayton was committed to the Massachusetts Treatment Center (treatment center) as a sexually dangerous person, pursuant to G. L. c. 123A, § 6, as appearing in St. 1958, c. 646, § 1. The basis of his commitment was a sexual...

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