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TILLEY v. U.S.

Nos. 15-CO-38 & 15-CO-240.

238 A.3d 961 (2020)

Donnell TILLEY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 1, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam G. Thompson , Public Defender Service, with whom Samia Fam , Public Defender Service, was on the brief, for appellant.

James A. Ewing , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Channing D. Phillips , United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and Elizabeth Trosman and Colleen Kennedy , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Dissenting opinion by Associate Judge Thompson at page 979.

Donnell Tilley appeals an order of the Superior Court civilly committing him indefinitely to St. Elizabeths Hospital, a mental institution, under the District of Columbia's seventy-year-old Sexual Psychopath Act (the SPA).1 Mr. Tilley contends that his commitment — which was not based...

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