IN RE FLAHERTY

SJC-10283

452 Mass. 1020 (2008)

JOSEPH FLAHERTY, petitioner.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

November 7, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wendy J. Murphy for the petitioner.

Meghan E. O'Neill, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.


Joseph Flaherty, a potential witness at the trial of Neil Entwistle, appeals from a judgment of a single justice of this court denying his petition for relief pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3. He had sought relief from an order of the trial judge sequestering him from the court room during the Entwistle trial. In his petition, he argued that the sequestration order violated his rights as a citizen and as counsel to the victims' family, and that neither the judge nor Entwistle...

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