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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Graydon Earl Comstock Jr. canonical | 1 |
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal criminal defendant
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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
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criminal law ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| legalIssueInvolved |
post-sentence civil commitment of certain sex offenders
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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 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Input
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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