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Bill would boost juries' role in sex crime cases

Sponsors cite a recent attack

By Erin Ailworth
Globe Staff / February 8, 2008

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A group of lawmakers filed legislation yesterday to give prosecutors power to demand that juries decide whether offenders nearing the end of their prison terms should be placed in a state treatment facility. (Full article: 561 words)

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