Guarente v. Sheriff of Suffolk County

By this bill for declaratory relief under G. L. c. 231 A, the plaintiff seeks reinstatement as a bail commissioner in Suffolk County. The defendants are the sheriff and the judges of the Superior Court, acting by the court’s committee on bail (committee). A single justice has reserved and reported the case without decision on the pleadings and a statement of agreed facts with exhibits. The exhibits include correspondence among the parties and a transcript of a hearing before the committee held on January 6, 1971.

We summarize the agreed facts. In 1963 the sheriff, with the approval of the…