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SUSSMAN v. COMMONWEALTH

374 Mass. 692 (1978)

374 N.E.2d 1195

STEVEN A. SUSSMAN vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 22, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerard F. Schaefer (Susan J. Baronoff with him) for the petitioner.

Kathleen King Parker, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

LIACOS, J.

This petition for a writ of error attacks a summary judgment of criminal contempt entered in the Superior Court against the petitioner, an attorney with the Massachusetts Defenders Committee.1 The Commonwealth's answer admitted all the essential facts alleged in the petition but denied the allegations that the petitioner had been unlawfully adjudged in contempt. The Commonwealth also filed a motion to dismiss the petition in...

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