Legal Opinion
Edwards v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 8, 2017No. SJC 12175PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGaziano, J.
On September 16, 2014, then Governor Deval Patrick removed Saundra R. Edwards from her position as chair of the Sex Offender Registry Board (SORB). A few days later, in response to media inquiries about Edwards’s abrupt departure, Patrick explained that, among other reasons, he had decided to replace Edwards because she inappropriately had attempted to pressure a SORB hearing officer to change the outcome of one of his decisions on an offender’s classification level. In subsequent comments to the media, after Edwards had filed an action for defamation and wrongful termination in the Superior…
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