Commonwealth v. Mongardi

How courts have described this case

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• \Determining responsibility for a civil motor vehicle infraction involves a proceeding between the State and a motor vehicle operator\
• operator found responsible “can appeal to a District Court judge, ‘who shall hear the case de novo’”
• “The procedure specified in c. 90C for the handling of civil motor vehicle infractions is essentially sui generis, and does not express a civil claim, right or remedy which was recognized at common law as requiring a jury trial”
• no right to jury trial on civil motor vehicle infractions, noting that newly decriminalized motor vehicle citation process was “essentially sui generis, and does not express a civil claim, right or remedy which was recognized at common law as requiring a jury trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).