Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Dodge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 10, 1999PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLynch, J.
After a bench trial in the District Court the defendant appealed from a finding of criminal contempt under Mass. R. Crim. R 44, 378 Mass. 920 (1979). We transferred the case here on our own motion. The defendant contends that his motion to dismiss the criminal contempt charge should have been allowed because the judge lacked authority to impose pretrial conditions on his release on personal recognizance and because the conditions attached to his release failed to constitute a clear and unequivocal judicial order. In addition to challenging the defendant’s contentions, the Commonwealth argues…
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