DOE, SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD NO. 3974 v. SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD

SJC-10488

457 Mass. 53 (2010)

JOHN DOE, SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD NO. 3974 v. SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY BOARD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

June 4, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason Benzaken for the plaintiff.

Beatriz E. Van Meek, Special Assistant Attorney General (Jennifer K. Zalnasky with her) for the defendant.

Brandon L. Campbell, for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.


CORDY, J.

In 1992, the plaintiff, then fifteen years of age, was adjudicated delinquent after committing an indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of fourteen. The next decade of his life yielded a marred, albeit nonsexual, criminal record that culminated, for purposes of this case, in a guilty plea in Federal court on one count of distributing a controlled substance. While in Federal custody pending sentencing...

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