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BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY v. GUIROLA

410 Mass. 820 (1991)

575 N.E.2d 1100

BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY & another vs. BLANCA GUIROLA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 8, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard P. Speicher for the defendant.

MaryLou Muirhead for the plaintiffs.

Rod Solomon, for Boston Housing Authority, submitted a memorandum.

Valda Alden Winsloe & Richard M. Whitehill, for Somerville Housing Authority & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

Blanca Guirola, the defendant, appeals from a judgment of the Housing Court terminating her tenancy in a Boston Housing Authority apartment after illegal drugs were discovered therein. See G.L.c. 139, § 19 (1990 ed.). She claims that (1) G.L.c. 139, § 19, does not authorize the termination of her tenancy where there is no evidence that she or members of her family possessed the illegal drugs; (2) the termination violates the double jeopardy clause...

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