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

SJC-12926.

484 Mass. 1029 (2020)

COMMITTEE FOR PUBLIC COUNSEL SERVICES & another, v. CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE TRIAL COURT & others (No. 2).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

April 28, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was submitted on briefs.

Rebecca A. Jacobstein , Benjamin H. Keehn , Rebecca Kiley , & David Rassoul Rangaviz , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services.

Matthew R. Segal , Jessie J. Rossman , Laura K. McCready , Kristin M. Mulvey , Chauncey B. Wood , & Victoria Kelleher for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

David C. Kravitz , Deputy State Solicitor, for the Attorney General.

Daniel P. Sullivan , Special Assistant Attorney General, for Chief Justice of the Trial Court.

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

Shara Benedetti for parole board.

Rachael Rollins , District Attorney, & Cailin M. Campbell , Assistant District Attorney, for district attorney for the Suffolk district.

Thomas M. Quinn, III , District Attorney, Michael D. O'Keefe , District Attorney, Jonathan Blodgett , District Attorney, Anthony D. Gulluni , District Attorney, Joseph D. Early , District Attorney, Michael W. Morrissey , District Attorney, & Timothy J. Cruz , District Attorney, for the district attorney for the Bristol district & others.

Dan V. Bair, II , Special Assistant Attorney General.


Rescript

The petitioners seek reconsideration or modification of our decision in this case, which was issued on April 3, 2020. Committee for Pub. Counsel Servs. v. Chief Justice of the Trial Court, 484 Mass. 431 (2020). Specifically, they ask us to reconsider our determination that neither our inherent judicial authority nor our superintendence authority permits a judge to stay a final sentence that is being served, absent a pending appeal or a motion...

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