Mb. Chief Justice Warren delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari in this case to consider the constitutional validity of the statutory procedure under which petitioner was committed to a mental institution at the expiration of his criminal sentence in a state prison. Petitioner, Johnnie K. Baxstrom, was convicted of se…
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