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CHARBONNEAU v. PRESIDING JUSTICE OF THE HOLYOKE DIVISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT DEPARTMENT

No. SJC-11908.

473 Mass. 515 (2016)

JOSHUA CHARBONNEAU, vs. PRESIDING JUSTICE OF THE HOLYOKE DIVISION OF THE DISTRICT COURT DEPARTMENT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 22, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul R. Rudof , Committee for Public Counsel Services ( Ryan M. Schiff , Committee for Public Counsel Services, with him) for the plaintiff.

Susanne G. Reardon , Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

William C. Newman , Chauncey B. Wood , & Joseph N. Schneiderman , for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Gants, C.J., Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Duffly, Lenk, & Hines, JJ.

In this appeal, we determine whether a standing order of the Holyoke Division of the District Court Department (Holyoke District Court), prohibiting the tender of a so-called "defendant-capped" plea on the day of trial, contravenes the guilty plea procedure mandated in G. L. c. 278, § 18, and Mass. R. Crim. P. 12, as appearing in...

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