SENATE DOCKET, NO. 160        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1548

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act FURTHER PROTECTING VICTIMS FROM SEXUALLY DANGEROUS PERSONS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Chapter 123A:  SECTION 14. of the General Laws, is hereby amended by striking in line one of section 14 "The district attorney or the attorney general at the request of the district attorney may petition the court for a trial which shall be by jury unless affirmatively waived by the person named in the petition"  and inserting in line 1, "In any trial held pursuant to the provisions of this section, either the person named in the petition or the petitioning party may demand that the case be tried to a jury, and upon such demand, which shall be made in writing, the case shall be tried to a jury."