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KROCHTA v. COMMONWEALTH

429 Mass. 711 (1999)

MICHAEL KROCHTA v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 16, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael W. Reilly for the plaintiff.

Thomas D. Ralph & William T. Harrington, Assistant District Attorneys, for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.

MARSHALL, J.

We decide in this case whether collateral estoppel bars criminal prosecution of a defendant for offenses following a finding in his favor at a probation revocation hearing triggered by the alleged commission of the same offenses.1 We hold that it does not.

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On July 9, 1996, Michael Krochta (defendant) pleaded guilty in the Palmer District Court to the crime of...

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