Shepard v. Attorney General

How courts have described this case

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

• \[T]he rights asserted by the [plaintiff] are not private but are in fact lodged in the 6 Commonwealth as it may proceed to enforce its laws\ [citation omitted]
• prosecutors have broad discretion in determining whether to prosecute a case
• \Judicial review of decisions which are within 8 the executive discretion of [a prosecutor] 'would constitute an intolerable interference by the judiciary in the executive department of the government and would be in violation of art. 30 of the [Massachusetts] Declaration of Rights'\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).