Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 6/20/1968

Commonwealth v. Buckley

Citations

238 N.E.2d 335
354 Mass. 508
1968 Mass. LEXIS 849

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imputing a scienter requirement to a statute exposing an accused to substantial imprisonment for presence at a location where “a narcotic drug . . . [was] illegally kept or deposited”
“Statutes, purporting to create criminal offences which may impinge upon the public’s access to constitutionally protected matter . . . , have been construed to require knowledge by the accused of the facts giving rise to criminality” [quotation and citation omitted]
imposition of five-year prison sentence described as “severe penalty”
characterizing five-year prison sentence as a “severe penalty”

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Judges: Wilkins, Spalding, Whittemore, Cutter, Kirk, Spiegel, Reardon

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