BRIDGEMAN v. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE SUFFOLK DISTRICT

SJC-11764.

471 Mass. 465 (2015)

30 N.E.3d 806

KEVIN BRIDGEMAN & others v. DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE SUFFOLK DISTRICT & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 18, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew R. Segal ( Daniel N. Marx with him) for the petitioners.

Benjamin H. Keehn , Committee for Public Counsel Services ( Nancy J. Caplan , Committee for Public Counsel Services, with him) for the intervener.

Vincent J. DeMore , Assistant District Attorney, for District Attorney for the Suffolk District.

Quentin Weld , Assistant District Attorney, for District Attorney for the Essex District.

Jean-Jacques Cabou , of Arizona; Joanna Perini-Abbott , of Oregon; & Daniel Gelb & Elizabeth A. Lunt, for National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Richard Marshall , of New York, & Aaron M. Katz , C. Thomas Brown , Mark Vaughn , & Barbara J. Dougan , for Families Against Mandatory Minimums & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, DUFFLY, LENK, & HINES, JJ.


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