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SPICUZZA v. COMMONWEALTH

SJC-13589.

494 Mass. 1005 (2024)

TRACEY ANNE SPICUZZA & others v. COMMONWEALTH & another. FREEDOM TO PROTEST COALITION & others v. COMMONWEALTH & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

May 2, 2024.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cases were submitted on the papers filed, accompanied by memoranda of law.

Mark Trammell , of Maryland, Marc J. Randazza , & Jay M. Wolman for the petitioners.

Pamela Alford & Adam C. Lally , Assistant District Attorneys, for the Commonwealth.

Ruth A. Bourquin & Rachel E. Davidson, for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Bharani Padmanabhan, pro se, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

The petitioners in these consolidated cases appeal from a judgment of a single justice of this court denying their petitions for relief pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3. On April 26, 2024, we issued an order affirming the judgment. This opinion states the reasons for that order.5

Background. The petitions stemmed from the ongoing trial, in the Superior Court in Norfolk County, in Commonwealth vs. Karen Read, No. 2282CR00117. Read has...

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