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COMMONWEALTH v. HASTINGS

SJC-13495.

494 Mass. 58 (2024)

COMMONWEALTH v. QUASIM HASTINGS & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Berkshire.

May 13, 2024.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sharon Dehmand for the defendant.

Andre A. Janiszewski, Assistant Attorney General, for the intervener.

Benjamin H. Keehn, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

This appeal concerns the scope of the constitutionally mandated exception to G. L. c. 261, §§ 27A-27G (indigency statute), carved out in Diatchenko v. District Attorney for the Suffolk Dist., 471 Mass. 12, 26-27 (2015) (Diatchenko II). In particular, we address whether the exception authorizes...

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