IN RE LeSAGE

SJC-13041.

488 Mass. 175 (2021)

ROBERT LESAGE, petitioner.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 10, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary P. Murray for the Commonwealth.

John S. Day for the petitioner.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Cypher, Kafker, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.


The issue before us is whether, in proceedings pursuant to G. L. c. 123A, § 9 (§ 9), for discharge from civil commitment as a sexually dangerous person, the Commonwealth's exercise of its statutory right to demand a jury trial constitutes a substantive due process violation in light of the suspension on jury trials because of...

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