Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Riley
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided August 30, 1996No. 95-P-1777PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPorada, J.
The sole issue presented by this appeal1 is whether a private citizen’s complaint against the defendant for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol was barred by a police officer's failure to issue the defendant a timely citation for this offense. A District Court judge concluded that the complaint was barred and allowed *235the defendant’s motion to dismiss on the ground that the complaint was used as an “artifice” to circumvent the provisions of G. L. c. 90C, § 2. We agree and affirm the judgment of dismissal.
We summarize the undisputed facts garnered from the record. On…
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- Commonwealth v. FedericoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1968
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