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NEWS GROUP BOSTON, INC. v. COMMONWEALTH

409 Mass. 627 (1991)

568 N.E.2d 600

NEWS GROUP BOSTON, INC. vs. COMMONWEALTH & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 28, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Sheketoff (David Duncan with him) for a juvenile.

Juliane Balliro for a juvenile.

Daniel C. Mullane, Assistant District Attorney (Annemarie Relyea-Chew, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Barbara A. Lenk for the plaintiff.

Pamela L. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General, for Dorchester Division of the District Court Department, was present but did not argue.

William C. Madden, for a juvenile, was present but did not argue.

Joan C. Stanley, for a juvenile, & William J. Doyle, for a juvenile, joined in a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, & NOLAN, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

We deal with the question of the right of the public, including representatives of the press, to attend juvenile court sessions involving a juvenile charged with murder. The issue arises because, by St. 1990, c. 267, § 4, approved on December 4, 1990, and effective forthwith by declaration of the Governor, the Legislature changed the long-standing requirement in G.L.c. 119, § 65 (1988 ed.) (see St. 1931, c. 217) that a judge sitting in a juvenile...

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