Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Young
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 4, 2009PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
These cases, here on a reservation and report by a single justice of this court, require us to decide whether unlicensed possession of a firearm qualifies as a predicate offense pursuant to G. L. c. 276, § 58A, which allows the Commonwealth to seek pretrial detention of individuals accused of certain serious offenses. We conclude that it does not.2
1. Facts. The defendants, in unrelated cases, were both charged *708with, inter alla, unlicensed possession of a firearm. See G. L. c. 269, § 10 (a).3 The Commonwealth moved to detain them pursuant to G. L. c. 276, § 58A(§ 5 8 A). A judge in the…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Hanlon v. RollinsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
- Commonwealth v. JacksonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Miller v. CotterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007
- United States v. Singleton, Carlos T.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1999
- Commonwealth v. JonesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Commonwealth v. GouseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
- Commonwealth v. JohnsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
- Commonwealth v. EberhartMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
- Powell v. TompkinsCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2015
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
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