COMMONWEALTH v. BRUZZESE


437 Mass. 606 (2002)

COMMONWEALTH v. MICHAEL BRUZZESE. COMMONWEALTH v. THOMAS CHIRILLO. COMMONWEALTH v. BRUCE WHEELER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk, Essex.

August 26, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alba Doto Baccari for Thomas Chirillo.

Robert C. Cosgrove, Assistant District Attorney (Ellen McCusker Devlin, Assistant District Attorney, with him) & Catherine L. Semel, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Linda G. Ramsden for Michael Bruzzese.

Benjamin H. Keehn, Committee for Public Counsel Services (Paul Rudof, Committee for Public Counsel Services, with him) for Bruce Wheeler.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.


SPINA, J.

These cases raise issues of the sentencing options available to judges after a defendant's probation has been revoked on multiple charges, and specifically, how a concurrent sentencing scheme affects those options. We granted the Commonwealth's application for further appellate review in Commonwealth v. Bruzzese, 53 Mass.App.Ct. 152 (2001), where the Appeals...

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