Legal Opinion
Vaccaro v. Vaccaro
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 5, 1997PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
A judge in the District Court allowed a motion by George H. Vaccaro to have his record expunged from the Statewide domestic violence record keeping system (system), created by St. 1992, c. 188, § 7. The Department of *154Probation (department) moved to have the order vacated. The motion was denied by the judge. The department appealed, and we allowed George Vaccaro’s application for direct appellate review. We conclude that the judge lacked authority to order ex-pungement. Accordingly, we vacate the order.
The background of the case is as follows. On September 27, 1993, Donalda Vaccaro (Donalda),…
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