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COMMONWEALTH v. BURGESS

450 Mass. 366 (2008)

COMMONWEALTH v. LARRY BURGESS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Franklin.

January 8, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Hirsch, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Steven Greenbaum, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: Marshall, C.J., Greaney, Ireland, Spina, Cowin, Cordy, & Botsford, JJ.

GREANEY, J.

In Commonwealth v. Nieves, 446 Mass. 583, 590-591 (2006), we considered the constitutionality of G. L. c. 123A, § 14, that provision of our sexually dangerous person statute that authorizes the maintenance of civil commitment proceedings against an incompetent individual who has been convicted of a sexual offense. We held in the Nieves decision that...

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