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COMMONWEALTH v. CLINTON

SJC-13335.

491 Mass. 756 (2023)

COMMONWEALTH v. David CLINTON (and nine companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

April 27, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anna E. Lumelsky, Assistant Attorney General (Kevin Lownds, Assistant Attorney General, also present) for the Commonwealth.

Jeffrey J. Pyle (John F.X. Lawler & James W. Lawson also present) for David Clinton.

William M. Bennett (Meredith G. Fierro also present) for Bennett Walsh.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Judith M. Flynn for Long Term Care Community Coalition & others.

Nina Loewenstein, of New York, & Tatum A. Pritchard for Disability Law Center.

Anna Richardson for Veterans Legal Services.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Cypher, Kafker, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.

The grand jury indicted the defendants, Bennett Walsh and David Clinton, the superintendent and medical director of the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke (Soldiers' Home), respectively, for elder neglect in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 13K (d ½) (elder neglect statute), in connection with their alleged failure to provide treatment...

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