Goslin v. Chief Administrative Justice

On March 21, 1977, a judge of the District Court of East Norfolk notified the then Chief Justice of the Superior Court, as chairman of the committee on probation, of his intention to remove Goslin as a probation officer in the District Court. See G. L. c. 276, § 83, as it read before the enactment of St. 1978, c. 478, § 290. The pertinent part of § 83 then read: “A probation officer may be removed ... for cause by the justices of the court making the appointment; provided that no probation officer shall be removed ... by said justices unless such removal. . . shall be approved in writing by…