Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 9/14/2005

Commonwealth v. Pagan

Citations

445 Mass. 161
834 N.E.2d 240
2005 Mass. LEXIS 497

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vacating sentence of CPSL where imposed pursuant to indictment that failed to set forth defendant’s predicate offenses
overruling Appeals Court’s interpretation of art. 12 “excusing indictment as a repeat offender when the predicate convictions expose the defendant to a higher mandatory minimum sentence, but the same maximum”
striking down G. L. c. 275, § 18, in part, as unconstitutionally vague
striking down G. L. c. 275, § 18, in part, as unconstitutionally vague
CPSL provision of G. L. c. 275, § 18, unconstitutionally vague as applied to “Category 1” and “Category 2” offenders
“If a defendant is made susceptible to a prescribed statutorily enhanced penalty because of a former conviction, the predicate offense must be alleged in the complaint or indictment”

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