FOSS v. COMMONWEALTH


437 Mass. 584 (2002)

JAMES A. FOSS, JR. v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 22, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen Owen Talley (George J. Duffy with her) for the plaintiff.

Valerie A. DePalma, Assistant District Attorney (Andrew Zeiberg, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Present: GREANEY, IRELAND, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.


IRELAND, J.

This case raises a question of statutory interpretation: Whether G. L. c. 123, § 16 (f), mandates the dismissal of charges pending against an incompetent criminal defendant on the final date of the period prescribed under the statute and computed on the basis of the maximum sentence for the single most serious crime charged or on the basis of the maximum consecutive sentences of all of the crimes charged of equal seriousness. The single justice...

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