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Civil Committment of Sexually Dangerous Persons Upheld

By Chuck Kallendorf

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As we were discussing above, the Supreme Court handed down two major decisions last Monday. This is the second, United States v. Comstock, 08-1224, in which the Court upheld the law passed by Congress ordering the civil commitment of a mentally ill federal prisoner who is a sex offender with the commitment to continue beyond the date the inmate otherwise would be released. This reversed &

Full post as published by Cincinnati Law Library Blog on May 21, 2010 (boomark / email).

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