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PURCELL v. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE SUFFOLK DISTRICT

424 Mass. 109 (1997)

JEFFREY W. PURCELL v. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE SUFFOLK DISTRICT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 13, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel S. Manning (Jeffrey W. Purcell with him) for the plaintiff.

Katherine E. McMahon, Assistant District Attorney (Paul Treseler, Assistant District Attorney, with her), for the District Attorney for the Suffolk District.

Ernest Winsor for the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Michael J. Traft for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

WILKINS, C.J.

On June 21, 1994, Joseph Tyree, who had received a court order to vacate his apartment in the Allston section of Boston, consulted the plaintiff, Jeffrey W. Purcell, an attorney employed by Greater Boston Legal Services, which provides representation to low income individuals in civil matters. Tyree had recently been discharged as a maintenance man at the apartment building in which his apartment was located. On the day that Tyree consulted Purcell,...

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