Brown

The defendant,1 Dennis W. Brown, was convicted by a jury in the Central Northern Essex Division of the District Court of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. He was sentenced to one year in a house of correction (thirty days to be served) and was placed on two years’ probation. This appeal arises out of the revocation of his probation by a District Court judge. The defendant claims that his due process rights were violated by various deficiencies in the revocation proceedings and by the judge’s erroneous admission of and reliance upon uncorroborated hearsay.

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