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CARE & PROTECTION OF BETH

412 Mass. 188 (1992)

587 N.E.2d 1377

CARE AND PROTECTION OF BETH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

March 11, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Moriarty, Jr., guardian ad litem.

Jon Laramore, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

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

ABRAMS, J.

A single justice has reserved and reported the correctness of a substituted judgment determination calling for a "no code"1 order to be entered on the medical charts of an incompetent minor ward. A judge of the Holyoke Division of the District Court determined that an infant in a persistent vegetative coma would choose, were she competent, to have the "no code" order entered on her...

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