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COMMONWEALTH v. CURTIN

386 Mass. 587 (1982)

436 N.E.2d 1200

COMMONWEALTH vs. PATRICIA A. CURTIN (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

June 23, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Bachelor, pro se.

Patricia A. Curtin, pro se.

Robert s. Sinsheimer, Assistant district Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General, Stephen R. Delinsky, Barbara A.H. Smith & Paula J. DeGiacomo, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Commonwealth, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., ABRAMS, NOLAN, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

We are asked to determine the meaning of the words "normal appellate review" in cases involving minor traffic violation where, as here, there were hearings before a clerk-magistrate of a District Court, and a de novo hearing before a judge. G.L.c. 90, § 20F, sixth par.,2 inserted by St. 1978, c. 478, § 41. We left this question open in Commonwealth v. Germano,<...

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