Commonwealth v. Vickey

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that words should be given “their plain meaning in light of the aim of the Legislature,” and judicial legislation should be avoided
• distinguishing the Police Comm’r of Boston decision; no judicial enlargement required where statutory scheme is spelled out by Legislature
• declining to extend availability of sealing beyond named dispositions to pardon as no \strong demonstration of a legislative purpose not to limit the availability of sealing to the named dispositions\ where they \are premised on a presumption of innocence\
• “when the statute appears not to provide for an eventuality, there is no justification for judicial legislation”
• “Even if a pardon may remit all penal consequences of a criminal conviction, it cannot obliterate the acts which constituted the crime.”
• “[W]hen the statute appears not to provide for an eventuality, there is no justification for judicial legislation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).