BENEFIT v. CAMBRIDGE


424 Mass. 918 (1997)

CRAIG BENEFIT v. CITY OF CAMBRIDGE & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 14, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory I. Massing, Assistant Attorney General, for the District Attorney for the Northern District.

Sarah R. Wunsch (Jonathan Shapiro with her) for the plaintiff.

Maria Foscarinis, Catherine Bendor, Carl Nadler & Thomas J. Perrelli, of the District of Columbia, for National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, GREANEY, FRIED, & MARSHALL, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

General Laws c. 272, § 66, provides that "[p]ersons wandering abroad and begging, or who go about from door to door or in public or private ways, areas to which the general public is invited, or in other places for the purpose of begging or to receive alms, and who are not licensed" may be imprisoned for up to six months. The plaintiff, Craig Benefit, filed a complaint on July 9, 1992, in the Superior Court...

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