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COMMONWEALTH v. DOUGLAS

354 Mass. 212 (1968)

236 N.E.2d 865

COMMONWEALTH vs. JACK DOUGLAS & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 3, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. White, Jr., for the defendant O'Neill.

David S. Nelson for the defendant Douglas, Joseph S. Oteri for the defendant Alexander Celeste, & Monroe L. Inker for the defendant Frank Celeste, joined in a brief.

Murray P. Reiser, Assistant District Attorney (Roger Michael Carey, Legal Assistant to the District Attorney, with him), for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, & SPIEGEL, JJ.

CUTTER, J.

Douglas, Frank Celeste, Alexander Celeste, and Arthur J. O'Neill were indicted for various offences. Douglas and O'Neill were each charged with threats to extort. Alexander Celeste was charged with being an accessory before the fact to such threats. Frank Celeste and Alexander Celeste were each indicted for violation of G.L.c. 140, § 110, making it a crime for an unlicensed person to conduct a small loan business (see fn. 3). All four defendants were...

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