COMMONWEALTH v. K.W.

SJC-13153.

490 Mass. 619 (2022)

COMMONWEALTH v. K.W.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

September 8, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pauline Quirion for the petitioner.

Andrew S. Doherty , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Ruth A. Bourquin , Katharine Naples-Mitchell , & Joshua M. Daniels , for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc., & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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


K.W. filed a petition pursuant to G. L. c. 276, § 100K, in the Boston Municipal Court, seeking expungement of two sets of criminal records stemming from separate arrests that had both occurred more than fifteen years earlier. Each set of records involved charges or convictions of possession of an amount of marijuana that since has...

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