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DOE v. COMMONWEALTH

396 Mass. 421 (1985)

486 N.E.2d 698

JOHN DOE vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 17, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willie J. Davis for the juvenile.

Maria I. Lopez, Assistant Attorney General, (Joan Entmacher, Assistant Attorney General, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

A single justice of this court has reported to us a case that presents the question whether a complaint may be brought in the Superior Court against a juvenile for criminal contempt of an order entered in a Superior Court civil action. The juvenile moved in the Superior Court to dismiss the complaint, contending that the Commonwealth could only have proceeded against him as a delinquent child (G.L.c. 119, §§ 61, 74 [1984 ed.]), and that the Superior...

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