Commonwealth v. Amidon

The Appeals Court affirmed the judge’s dismissal of the indictments in one published opinion, Commonwealth v. Amidon, 44 Mass. App. Ct. 338 (1998), and three unpublished decisions that relied on and were controlled by the published opinion.2 We allowed the Commonwealth’s applications for further appellate review as to all three defendants. We now affirm the judge’s order dismissing the indictments in Commonwealth v. Amidon (No. 1), 44 Mass. App. Ct. 1115 (1998), but vacate the judge’s orders as to the other three indictments. We discuss each defendant and the procedural intricacies separately.