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JENKINS v. CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT DEPT.

416 Mass. 221 (1993)

619 N.E.2d 324

TORRE JENKINS & others vs. CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT DEPARTMENT & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 13, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia A. O'Neill, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Torre Jenkins.

Martin R. Rosenthal for Reginald Waller.

LaDonna J. Hatton, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

William J. Leahy, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services, was present but did not argue.

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

LIACOS, C.J.

On September 30, 1991, the plaintiffs, Torre Jenkins, Reginald Waller, and the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS), petitioned a single justice of this court pursuant to G.L.c. 211, § 3 (1992 ed.), to order that all warrantless arrests in this Commonwealth be followed by a prompt judicial determination of probable cause on completion of the administrative steps incident to arrest.3 On October 3, 1991, the defendants...

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