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COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES v. CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE TRIAL COURT

SJC-12926.

484 Mass. 431 (2020)

COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES & another v. CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE TRIAL COURT & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 3, 2020.

Corrected April 17, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew R. Segal ( Jessie J. Rossman also present) for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Rebecca A. Jacobstein , Committee for Public Counsel Services ( Benjamin H. Keehn , Committee for Public Counsel Services, also present) for Committee for Public Counsel Services.

Eric A. Haskell , Assistant Attorney General ( David C. Kravitz & Mindy S. Klenoff , Assistant Attorneys General, also present) for the Attorney General.

Daniel P. Sullivan for Chief Justice of the Trial Court.

Charles W. Anderson, Jr. , for Department of Correction.

Gloriann Moroney for parole board.

Donna Jalbert Patalano , Assistant District Attorney ( Rachael Rollins , District Attorney, & Elizabeth Riley-Cunniffe , Assistant District Attorney, also present) for district attorney for the Suffolk district.

Thomas D. Ralph , Assistant District Attorney ( Marian T. Ryan , District Attorney, also present) for district attorney for the northern district & others.

Jane A. Sullivan , Assistant District Attorney ( Elizabeth Dunphy Farris , Assistant District Attorney, also present) for the district attorney for the middle district & others.

Robert W. Harnais ( Dan V. Bair, II , also present) for fourteen sheriff's departments.

Andrea Harrington , District Attorney for the Berkshire District, was present but did not argue.

Robert A. Jones & Joshua S. Levy , for the special master, were present but did not argue.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Katharine Naples-Mitchell for Mary T. Bassett & others.

Ruth Greenberg for Joseph Buckman & others.

Max Bauer for Dominick Donovan & others.

Liam T. Lowney, pro se.

Michael Cox, pro se.

Andrea James, Joneisha James, Stacey Borden, Robert Williams, Suzanne Gray, Michael Gray, Kathleen Mahan, Adelcia Miller, Damaris Muhammed, Brooke Hadley, Reyna M. Ramirez, Lauren Petit, Khadejah Al-Rijleh, Casandra Scarlet, Erika N., Paige Scott, Aaron Bray, Nana Yankah, Marsophia S. Ducheine, L.B., L.M., J.C., Lor Holmes, J.D., W.H., K.L., S.P., Joan Hunter, R.R., T.B., J.G., Selena Williams, Keondra Jean, J.B., Jude Glaubman, Nicole Sadler, Mallory Hanora, Jurrell Laronal, Annette Bartley, Fernando Phillips, Miles McKinney, Carlos R., & Ayana Aubourg, pro se.

Leon Smith for Citizens for Juvenile Justice.

Elizabeth Matos , James Pingeon , Bonita Tenneriello , & Jesse White for Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts.

Phillip Kassel , Jennifer Honig , Coco Holbrook , & Caitlin Parton for Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee.

Christine M. Netski , Meredith Shih , David M. Siegel , & Martin F. Murphy for Boston Bar Association.

Jessica L. LaClair for Jose Rivera.

Present: GANTS, C.J., GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

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