Fitzpatrick v. Commonwealth

Joshua Fitzpatrick appeals from a judgment of a single justice of this court denying, without a hearing, his petition for relief under G. L. c. 211, § 3. We affirm.

Fitzpatrick was charged in the Juvenile Court with offenses that he allegedly committed while under the age of seventeen, but for which he was apprehended after his eighteenth birthday. After a hearing at which three alleged victims testified, a judge in the Juvenile Court found both that there was probable cause and that it was in the interest of the public that Fitzpatrick be charged as an adult. G. L. c. 119, § 72A. The judge…