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COMMONWEALTH v. ELDRED

SJC-12279.

480 Mass. 90 (2018)

COMMONWEALTH v. JULIE A. ELDRED.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 16, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa M. Newman-Polk ( Benjamin H. Keehn, Committee for Public Counsel Services, also present) for the defendant.

Maria Granik, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Amy M. Belger for Massachusetts Medical Society & others.

Martha M. Coakley & Rachel C. Hutchinson for National Association of Drug Court Professionals.

Steven Fitzgerald, pro se.

Matthew R. Segal & Adriana Lafaille for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Inc., & others.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

Following a probation violation hearing, a judge in the District Court found that the defendant, Julie A. Eldred,1 had tested positive for fentanyl, in violation of a condition of her probation requiring her to abstain from using illegal drugs. The judge ordered that the conditions of her probation be modified...

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