Facts
A. was convicted several times for repeated sexual acts with children, pornography, and other offenses, to a total of more than six years of imprisonment and an outpatient therapeutic measure. By decision of March 28, 2013, the Criminal and Enforcement Court of Valais converted the accompanying outpatient measure into an inpatient therapeutic measure. On March 28, 2018, it extended this measure until the end of December 2019.
On December 2, 2019, the cantonal Department of Criminal and Enforcement Enforcement applied to the Enforcement Court for the extension of the inpatient measure in the judicial follow-up proceedings. Since the Enforcement Court was unable to issue a new measure judgment before the expiry of the enforcement title on December 31, 2019, it applied to the cantonal Coercive Measures Court on December 3, 2019 for the imposition of preventive detention against the convicted person from January 1, 2020 until the pending decision in the judicial follow-up proceedings.
By order of December 20, 2019, the Coercive Measures Court ordered the convicted person to be placed in preventive detention. An appeal filed against this was dismissed by the Cantonal Court of the Canton of Valais, Criminal Chamber, by order of January 30, 2020.
The convicted person appealed against the order of the Cantonal Court of January 30, 2020 to the Federal Supreme Court by appeal of March 2, 2020.
Considerations
The Cantonal Court affirmed the existence of substantive grounds for detention by analogy with the provisions of Art. 221 and 229 et seq. CCP applicable to preventive detention prior to conviction. It explained that the appellant had been convicted four times for repeated sexual acts with children at home and abroad, pornography, and other offenses, to a total of more than six years of imprisonment. In the inpatient enforcement of the…