Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

Sun 20 SepCASE

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EX PARTE FELTON BRADY V. THE STATE OF TEXAS

— STAFF
Having failed to show the requirement that he wear a GPS monitor was unconstitutional as applied to him—either in illegally restraining his movement or being punitive in nature—Brady cannot establish the trial court abused its discretion by summarily denying his request for habeas corpus relief.

Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont) · dismissed

Whether mandating a GPS monitor for a civilly committed sexually violent predator housed in a treatment facility is punitive as applied.

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10976635/ex-parte-felton-brady-v-the-state-of-texas/