United States v. Caporale, No. 12-6832 (4th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseRespondent finished serving his prison sentence for child molestation in 2008, but has remained incarcerated while the government sought to have him declared a "sexually dangerous person" pursuant to the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, 18 U.S.C. 4248. The government appealed the judgment of the district court that respondent be freed from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons and granted supervised release. The court concluded that, contrary to the district court's legal determination and as established by the evidence, respondent indeed suffered from a qualifying mental impairment. The court nevertheless affirmed the judgment, discerning no clear error in the district court's alternative rationale that the government fell short of carrying its burden to demonstrate a relative likelihood that respondent would reoffend.
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