Opinion

Jones v. United States

  • 411 A.2d 624
Court
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Filed
Apr 22, 1980
Status
Published
Author
Mack
On the bench
Kelly, MacK, Ferren
Cited by
4 cases
Authority
More cited than 9.3%

The opinion

MACK, Associate Judge,

concurring:

I concurred in our first opinion, 396 A.2d 183 (1978), because I did not construe that analysis as holding that the criminal commitment procedures of D.C.Code 1973, § 24-301 would pass muster as against a challenge on equal protection or procedural due process grounds, citing Jackson v. Indiana, 406 U.S. 715 , 92 S.Ct. 1845 , 32 L.Ed.2d 435 (1972). I concur in the instant holding because the serious reservations that I held about the constitutionality of such procedures are erased by our choosing to mandate that an acquitee must be released from incarceration at the expiration of the maximum period of possible imprisonment for the criminal charge, subject to the government’s right to seek civil commitment.

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