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· 8/15/2014

Commonwealth v. Pon

Citations

  • 469 Mass. 296
  • 14 N.E.3d 182

How courts have described this case

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

  • “We conclude that the records of closed criminal cases resulting in these particular' dispositions are not subject to a First Amendment presumption of access, and therefore that the sealing of a record under G. L. c. 276, § 100C, need not survive strict scrutiny”
  • defendant admitted to sufficient facts for guilty finding
  • collateral consequences include homelessness and unemployment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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