COMMONWEALTH v. GIBSON

SJC-11990.

474 Mass. 726 (2016)

COMMONWEALTH, v. DONALD GIBSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

July 13, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glynis Mac Veety , for the defendant.

Bethany C. Lynch , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


The principal issue in this appeal is whether a Superior Court judge properly ordered the forfeiture of the defendant's right to counsel in a probation revocation hearing. The judge, faced with a defendant who admittedly had engaged in a pattern of quarrelsome, confrontational, hostile, and threatening...

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