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EDWARDS, PETITIONER.

464 Mass. 454 (2013)

RAYMOND EDWARDS, petitioner.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

March 7, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ryan M. Schiff , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for intervener.

Anne M. Thomas , Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

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

GANTS, J.

The primary issue presented on appeal is whether, in determining the reasonable compensation to be paid to an expert retained by an indigent petitioner seeking release from commitment as a sexually dangerous person under G. L. c. 123A, § 9 (§ 9), a judge is bound by the hourly rate determined for that expert by the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) under G. L. c. 211D, § 9 (i). We hold that a judge is bound by CPCS's determination...

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