Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1/8/2008

Commonwealth v. Burgess

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450 Mass. 366
878 N.E.2d 921
2008 Mass. LEXIS 6

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individual who has been charged with sexual offense but, due to incompetency, has not been tried and convicted of that charge may nevertheless, consistent with principles of due process, be civilly committed
“The Commonwealth need only provide substantially similar, and not identical, procedural safeguards.”
“[E]ven though the [sexually dangerous person] hearing is civil in nature, the Legislature has provided that it proceed much the same as a criminal trial, and that it include many rights to which a criminal defendant is constitutionally entitled” [citation omitted]
considering provision similar to South Carolina's § 44-48- 100(B
considering provision similar to South Carolina's § 44-48- 100(B

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