BOSTON - The state Appeals Court has upheld the civil commitment of a former Duxbury man who has spent more than two decades behind bars for raping and molesting half a dozen South Shore boys in the 1990s.Lucas Ortiz, better known on the South Shore as Michael P. Nickerson, had argued in his appeal that a judge was wrong to exclude evidence during a trial six years ago that led to his commitment as a ‘sexually dangerous person” under a state law that allows for the [...]
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