# Jones v. United States

> District of Columbia Court of Appeals · April 22, 1980 · 411 A.2d 624

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9719545

## Case

- **Full name:** Michael A. JONES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee
- **Court:** District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** April 22, 1980
- **Citations:** 411 A.2d 624
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Mack
- **Judges:** Kelly, MacK, Ferren
- **Cited by:** 4 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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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