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COMMONWEALTH v. POWER

420 Mass. 410 (1995)

COMMONWEALTH vs. KATHERINE A. POWER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 18, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph L. Kociubes (Mark W. Batten, Peter J. Mancusi & Sarah R. Wunsch with him) for the defendant.

John P. Zanini, Assistant District Attorney (Katherine E. McMahon, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Abbe Smith, for Criminal Justice Institute, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Melvin Spaeth, Darryl W. Jackson, Laura J. Hines, Ruth Ann M. Nicastri & Charles W. Scarborough, of the District of Columbia, & Robert S. Mueller, III, & Peter A. Spaeth, for The National Victim Center, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Wayne C. Paquette, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

LIACOS, C.J.

The defendant pleaded guilty to two indictments charging her with armed robbery and to so much of a murder indictment as charged manslaughter. The defendant now seeks to appeal from the portion of her sentence which places her on probation for twenty years with a special condition that she not profit from the sale of her story to the news media.1 The defendant requests that we vacate the special condition on the grounds (1...

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