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NICHOLAS-TAYLOR v. COMMONWEALTH

SJC-13206.

490 Mass. 552 (2022)

MALIKAI NICHOLAS-TAYLOR, v. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

August 30, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melissa Allen Celli ( Jason Benzaken & Moira C. Barry also present) for the petitioner.

Laura A. McLaughlin , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Taylor Henley , Committee for Public Counsel Services, for youth advocacy division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Katherine W. Briggs , for Department of Youth Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

We are asked to decide whether, where a juvenile defendant1 has been charged with murder and a nonmurder offense, properly joined pursuant to Mass. R. Crim. P. 9(a), 378 Mass. 859 (1979), a Superior Court judge has discretion to craft a bail order releasing the defendant on personal recognizance on

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