IN THE MATTER OF EXPUNGEMENT

SJC-13120.

489 Mass. 67 (2022)

IN THE MATTER OF EXPUNGEMENT.

Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 31, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hadler E. Charles for Commissioner of Probation.

The petitioner, pro se.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Cypher, Kafker, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.


This case requires us to construe the relationship between the subsections in one part of the expungement statute, G. L. c. 276, § 100K. The crux of the parties' dispute is whether a judge ordering expungement under this statute may skip the conditions enumerated in G. L. c. 276, § 100K(a), and expunge a record solely because...

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