COMMONWEALTH v. CARGILL


445 Mass. 329 (2005)

COMMONWEALTH vs. RICARDO CARGILL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 18, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beth L. Eisenberg for the defendant.

John P. Zanini, Assistant District Attorney (Joseph M. Ditkoff, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Murray A. Kohn, Committee for Public Counsel Services, & Lee J. Gartenberg, for Committee for Public Counsel Services & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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


GREANEY, J.

We granted the defendant's application for further appellate review of questions reported by a Superior Court judge to the Appeals Court. That court discharged the report. The questions pertain to the timing and authority of judges to set bail, or to reinstate bail, after the entry of a bail revocation order. Although we conclude that the report was properly discharged1 and that the...

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