Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Beals
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 8, 1989PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAbrams, J.
The defendant, Maria Beals, is charged with kidnapping her two sons and taking them out of Massachusetts, a felony under G. L. c. 265, § 26A (1988 ed.). A judge in the District Court, acting in accord with Mass. R. Crim. P. 34, 378 Mass. 905 (1979), reported a question concerning the applicability of G. L. c. 265, § 26A, to the facts of the case before him. The essence of the judge’s question is whether the terms of G. L. c. 265, § 26A, are sufficiently specific to criminalize the act of a parent’s taking his or her children out of the Commonwealth permanently or for a prolonged period in the…
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