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DOE v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

426 Mass. 136 (1997)

JOHN DOE v. ATTORNEY GENERAL & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 17, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Ward (Mary Lisa Bonauto with him) for the plaintiff.

Jane L. Willoughby, Assistant Attorney General (Peter Sacks, Assistant Attorney General, with her) for the Attorney General & another.

Carol A. Donovan & John Reinstein, for Committee for Public Counsel Services & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.

WILKINS, C.J.

Before us, on a report by a judge of the Superior Court on a statement of agreed facts, are challenges to the constitutionality of the registration and notification requirements of the sex offender act (G. L. c. 6, §§ 178C-1780) as applied to the plaintiff who has been convicted of indecent assault and battery.

The plaintiff contends that the act's automatic classification of him as a level...

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