Graydon Earl Comstock Jr.

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Graydon Earl Comstock Jr. is a federal criminal defendant whose challenge to post-sentence civil commitment of certain sex offenders led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Comstock.

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Graydon Earl Comstock Jr. canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf federal criminal defendant
person
caseDecisionDate 2010
caseOutcomeSummary Supreme Court upheld federal authority to civilly commit certain sexually dangerous persons already in federal custody
citizenship United States of America
courtCaseHeardBy Supreme Court of the United States
fieldOfActivity constitutional law
criminal law
hasGender male
legalIssueInvolved post-sentence civil commitment of certain sex offenders
scope of federal authority under the Necessary and Proper Clause
notableFor being the named respondent in United States v. Comstock
partyToCase United States v. Comstock
relatedStatute 18 U.S.C. § 4248
roleInCase respondent

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Graydon Earl Comstock Jr.
Description of subject: Graydon Earl Comstock Jr. is a federal criminal defendant whose challenge to post-sentence civil commitment of certain sex offenders led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Comstock.

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United States v. Comstock party Graydon Earl Comstock Jr.