Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Weston W.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 25, 2009PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
Around midnight on different dates, police officers in the city of Lowell (Lowell) encountered the juvenile defendants outside on the street. Each juvenile was arrested and charged with violating Lowell’s “Youth Protection Curfew for Minors” (ordinance), which requires persons under the age of seventeen (minors) to be at home between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. unless they meet one of a number of exceptions. The juvenile defendants filed motions to dismiss the complaints, arguing that the ordinance infringed on rights guaranteed by the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States…
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