POLICE COMM'R OF BOSTON v. MUN. CT. OF DORCHESTER DIST


374 Mass. 640 (1978)

374 N.E.2d 272

POLICE COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON vs. MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE DORCHESTER DISTRICT & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 16, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas Foundas for the plaintiff.

Jonathan Brant, Assistant Attorney General, for the Municipal Court of the Dorchester District.

Stanley Z. Fisher for the intervener.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, KAPLAN, WILKINS, & LIACOS, JJ.


LIACOS, J.

This case presents for decision an issue of first impression in this Commonwealth and one which is of great import to the administration of the system of juvenile justice. The issue is whether a judge of a Municipal Court, sitting in the capacity of a Juvenile Court judge, properly ordered the police department of Boston to expunge from its records fingerprints, photographs, and other records pertaining to the arrest of a juvenile when a delinquency proceeding...

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