COMMONWEALTH v. GOODWIN

No. SJC-10647.

458 Mass. 11 (2010)

COMMONWEALTH v. RALPH W. GOODWIN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 17, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bethany Stevens, Assistant District Attorney (Deborah Bercovitch, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Beth L. Eisenberg, Committee for Public Counsel Services (Jeannine E. Mercure with her) for the defendant.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.


GANTS, J.

Acting on a petition for relief brought by the Commonwealth under G. L. c. 211, § 3, a single justice of this court reserved and reported the question "whether a judge has the authority to impose a global positioning system (GPS) monitoring device as an additional condition of probation in a probation modification proceeding" where there was no finding of a violation of a condition of probation. We conclude...

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