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| Court Says NY Sex Criminals Can Be Held |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/03/2006 |
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A New York appeals court handed Governor Pataki a legal victory last week when it ruled that state officials can keep convicted sex criminals in psychiatric facilities as civilly committed patients after their prison sentences end. The state Appellate Division's decision reversed a lower court ruling that directed the examination of 12 inmates who were sent to mental hospitals after their sentences ended and ordered their release if they were not found to be mentally ill. Pataki says his executive order so far has civilly confined 49 sexually violent predators in state mental facilities since October. In November 2005, a state Supreme Court found 12 inmates were held illegally when they were involuntarily committed to mental hospitals after their sentences ended. But the appeals court says that because the sex offenders had been released from prison, the lower court judge erroneously applied provisions in the state's Correction Law, which governs psychiatric confinement of prison inmates. |
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