Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Mogelinski
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 23, 2013PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLenk, J.
This case concerns the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court.1 The Commonwealth filed five delinquency complaints against the defendant when he was seventeen, charging him with rape of a child under sixteen, G. L. c. 265, § 23, and indecent assault and battery on a child under fourteen, G. L. c. 265, § 13B, based on an alleged seven-year period of sexual abuse of the victim. Although summonsed into court on those complaints while still seventeen years old, the defendant had turned eighteen by the time of his first scheduled court appearance and arraignment. More than six months later, the…
2Cases cited35 opinions
- Apprendi v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Breed v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Rothgery v. Gillespie CountySupreme Court of the United States · 2008
- International Fidelity Insurance v. WilsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- Commonwealth v. FordeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
30 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.
3Cited by38 opinions
- Casseus v. E. Bus Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2018
- Commonwealth v. PerezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
- Commonwealth v. Samuel S., a juvenileMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2017
- Bellalta v. Zoning Bd. of Appeals of BrooklineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2019
- Commonwealth v. WilliamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2019
33 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.