Commonwealth v. Delisle

Donald K. Delisle appeals from an order of a judge sitting in the Suffolk Superior Court finding him in violation of his probation, revoking it, and imposing his suspended sentence. Delisle argues that the revocation was unlawful under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution because it was based on his termination from a prescribed counselling program that resulted in part from his failure to write a “self-incriminating disclosure” of his abuse of his wife. Delisle also argues that the revocation was unlawful because the conditions of the probation he violated had been…