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VALENTIN v. COMMONWEALTH

411 Mass. 608 (1992)

583 N.E.2d 863

ANGEL VALENTIN vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 9, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jane Larmon White, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the plaintiff.

Mary O'Sullivan Smith, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, O'CONNOR & GREANEY, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

We consider the lawfulness, over a defendant's objection, of the recently instituted practice of sending an appeal from a conviction in a bench trial in the Brockton District Court in Plymouth County for trial before a six-person jury in the Stoughton District Court in Norfolk County. In this proceeding Angel Valentin, whom we shall call the defendant, argues that there is a statutory bar to such a transfer between...

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