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· 3/13/2015

Commonwealth v. Didas

Citations

  • 471 Mass. 1
  • 26 N.E.3d 732

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • applying presumption to part of statute containing no provision regarding retroactivity
  • “If it were otherwise, every amendment or partial repeal and amendment of a criminal statute would need to be given retroactive effect, in direct conflict with the presumption of prospectivity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Botsford, Cordy, Duffly, Gants, Hines, Lenk, Spina

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