Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Watt

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided August 20, 2019No. SJC-12689PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

As far as we are able to discern, the terms "ML income," "VI income," "IT income," and "EX external disbursement," that is, the types of transactions that result in fees, are not defined anywhere in the regulations. Moreover, the judge did not make any findings as to the meaning of any of these terms or as to whether any fees imposed on the defendant's inmate account were related to any of these types of transactions. The Commonwealth has provided documents in an effort to explain the various types of transactions, but these documents, which were not before the judge, do not use the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

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