BATTISTA v. CLARKE

No. 10-1965.

645 F.3d 449 (2011)

Sandy J. BATTISTA, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Harold W. CLARKE, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Correction, and Michael Corsini, Superintendent of Massachusetts Treatment Center, Defendants, Appellants. Kathleen M. Dennehy; Robert Murphy; Steve Fairly; Susan J. Martin; Gregory J. Hughes; UMass Correctional Health Program; Terre Marshall, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 20, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. McFarland , Legal Division, Department of Correction, with whom Nancy Ankers White , Special Assistant Attorney General, was on brief for appellants.

Neal E. Minahan , with whom Christopher D. Man and McDermott Will & Emery LLP were on brief for appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Circuit Judge, SOUTER, Associate Justice, and STAHL, Circuit Judge.


BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.

In 1983, in state court in Massachusetts, Sandy Battista (born "David Megarry") was convicted of the rape of a child, robbery, and kidnapping. After serving that sentence, Battista was involuntarily committed in 2003 in a civil proceeding, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 123A, § 14 (2008), to the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons ("Treatment Center"). Such persons are held civilly without limit in time until adjudged safe...

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