Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Hilaire
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided June 11, 2001No. 00-P-131PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRapoza, J.
In Federal custody and facing the prospect of *819deportation to his native Haiti,2 the defendant moved in District Court to withdraw his admissions to sufficient facts on several offenses3 and requested a new trial, pursuant to Mass.R.Crim.P. 30(b), 378 Mass. 900 (1979). In that motion he claimed that he was not given proper immigration warnings, see G. L. c. 278, § 29D, as appearing in St. 1996, c. 450, § 254, and that his admissions to sufficient facts were not intelligently made. The defendant’s motion was denied after a hearing by the judge who had accepted his admissions, and he appealed.…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DuquetteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Sousa v. Immigration & Naturalization ServiceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2000
- Commonwealth v. MahadeoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Commonwealth v. RzepphiewskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2000
- Commonwealth v. JonesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1994
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Commonwealth v. WheelerMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2001
- Commonwealth v. HilaireMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
- Commonwealth v. RodriguezMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2001
- Commonwealth v. ChleikhMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2012
- Commonwealth v. JonesMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2003
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