Sex Predator’s Release Upheld by D.C. Court of Appeals
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 20, Number 03, September/October 2018 , pp.39-39(1)
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Abstract:
In U.S. v. Wooden, the 4th Circuit affirmed a district Court ruling that 60-year old Walter Wooden no longer qualified as a sexually dangerous person and ordered his release from civil confinement. The court’s 18-page opinion is lengthy, thoughtful and comprehensive and we review it, and the underlying facts, in a case where the plaintiff’s IDD (“Intellectual Development Disorder”) may well have been implicated in some or most of the behaviors for which Wooden had been civilly committed.Keywords: U.S. v. Wooden; Adam Walsh Act; Intellectual Development Disorder
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