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COMMONWEALTH v. DONES

SJC-13271.

492 Mass. 291 (2023)

COMMONWEALTH v. MIGUEL REMI DONES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

June 23, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cynthia Cullen Payne, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Debbie F. Freitas for the defendant.

Sarah LoPresti, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for youth advocacy division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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

At issue in this case is the question whether a Juvenile Court judge may commit a youthful offender to the custody of the Department of Youth Services (DYS) until his twenty-first birthday, and then suspend that commitment with conditions of probation. We conclude that a judge in the Juvenile Court has such discretion to suspend a commitment...

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