Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Samuel S., a juvenile
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 17, 2017No. SJC 12135PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBotsford, J.
The juvenile was adjudicated both a youthful offender and a delinquent juvenile as the result of a single sexual assault. A Juvenile Court judge ordered the juvenile to register as a sex offender and to submit to global positioning system (GPS) monitoring, concluding that both consequences, under the relevant statutes, were mandatory. The juvenile argues that this conclusion was error. He argues first that the pertinent section of the sex offender registration statute, G. L. c. 6, § 178E (f), required the judge to make an individualized determination whether the juvenile must register as a…
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