New York’s Hybrid Sex Predator Process Voided: Pre-deprivation Due Process Required
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 15, Number 06, March/April 2014 , pp.86-87(2)
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Abstract:
Governor Pataki responded viscerally—but not constitutionally—to a dreadful murder committed by a recently paroled sex offender by opting for MHL, Section 9.27 which allows the director of a mental hospital to accept as an inpatient anyone alleged to be mentally ill and in need of hospitalization upon certification of two examining physicians.Keywords: Bailey v. Pataki, 708 F.3d 391; Mental Hygiene Law (MHL), Section 9.27; Correction Law, Section 402; Bailey v. Pataki, 722 F.Supp.2d 443, 448–49; Vitek v. Jones, 445 U.S. 480
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