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SJC takes up challenge to state sex offender law

By "eAdvocate"

3-15-2011 Massachusetts: SALEM ? Just how far can the government go to prevent a man prosecutors call an "incorrigible" exhibitionist from re-offending? That's the question the state's highest court took up yesterday during a hearing in the case of a North Shore man named Donald Suave. The Supreme Judicial Court was asked to consider whether the state's sexually dangerous persons law, allowing for some offenders to be kept in custody after they complete their sentences, is constitutional because it includes nonviolent offenses. Essex County prosecutors want to keep Suave locked up even though he has completed his most recent sentence, so last summer they asked Salem Superior Court Judge Timothy Feeley to declare Suave, 53, a "sexually dangerous person...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on March 16, 2011 (boomark / email).