Cooper v. Regional Administrative Judge of the District Court for Region V

This case involves cross appeals from a memorandum and judgment of a single justice of this court allowing the petition of Rosemary J. Cooper seeking relief pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3. The petitioner is an attorney and a former bar advocate. The appeals pertain to her assignments to represent indigent criminal defendants during the unusual temporary shortage of defense counsel that was first considered in Lavallee v. Justices in the Hampden Superior Court, 442 Mass. 228 (2004) (Lavallee). We conclude that relief under G. L. c. 211, § 3, was inappropriate.

The background of the case is as…