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GARCIA v. COMMONWEALTH

SJC-12863.

487 Mass. 97 (2021)

MARCOS GARCIA v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 22, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Hugetz , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the petitioner.

Ryan J. Rall , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

After a defendant has been found not criminally responsible by reason of mental illness, G. L. c. 123, § 16(a), allows the trial judge to order that the defendant be hospitalized "at a facility" for forty days for observation and examination.1 If the defendant...

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