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Commonwealth v. Greene

Citations

  • 508 N.E.2d 93
  • 400 Mass. 144
  • 1987 Mass. LEXIS 1447

How courts have described this case

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  • stating in dicta that knowing and voluntary admission to sufficient facts, like guilty plea, could be treated as waiver of nonjurisdictional defects for purposes of determining appeal rights
  • addressing whether an admission of sufficient facts is the functional equivalent of a guilty plea for the limited purpose of determining if defendant waived nonjurisdictional - 11 - defects
  • judge is entitled to treat admission to sufficient facts as the functional equivalent of guilty plea if the admission was made knowingly and voluntarily

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hennessey, Liacos, Nolan, Lynch, O'Connor

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