Massachusetts General Laws
Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases
Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases

Section 14 - Affray, Threats or Disturbance of Peace in Presence of Justice; Recognizance to Keep Peace - Section 14. Whoever, in the presence of a justice named...

Section 16 - Remission of Portion of Forfeited Penalty - Section 16. If, upon a suit brought on such recognizance,...

Section 17 - Right of Surety to Surrender Principal; Discharge From Liability; New Recognizance - Section 17. A surety in a recognizance to keep the...

Section 18 - Community Parole Supervision for Life in Addition to Sentence of Imprisonment or Probation; Covered Offenses - Section 18. Whenever a person is convicted of a first...

Chapter 276 - Search Warrants, Rewards, Fugitives From Justice, Arrest, Examination, Commitment and Bail. Probation Officers and Board of Probation

Section 1 - Complaint for Issuance of Search Warrant; Warrant for Designated Property or Articles; Search Incident to Arrest; Documentary Evidence Subject to Privilege - Section 1. A court or justice authorized to issue warrants...

Section 1a - Search Warrants for Articles Belonging to Subversive Organizations - Section 1A. A justice of the superior court, upon application...

Section 1b - Search Warrants for Records Possessed by Foreign Corporations Providing Electronic Communication or Remote Computing Services - Section 1B. (a) As used in this section, the following...

Section 2 - Requisites of Warrant - Section 2. Search warrants shall designate and describe the building,...

Section 2a - Form of Warrant - Section 2A. The warrant shall be in substantially the following...

Section 2b - Affidavit in Support of Application for Search Warrant; Contents and Form - Section 2B. A person seeking a search warrant shall appear...

Section 2c - Manner of Issuing Search Warrants; Application of Secs. 2, 2a and 2b - Section 2C. Search warrants issued pursuant to section two hundred...

Section 3 - Seizure, Custody and Disposition of Articles; Exceptions - Section 3. If an officer in the execution of a...

Section 3a - Time for Return of Search Warrant - Section 3A. Every officer to whom a warrant to search...

Section 4 - Notice Before Forfeiture of Property Seized Under Search Warrant - Section 4. Before a decree of forfeiture of property seized...

Section 5 - Service of Notice - Section 5. The notice shall, not less than fourteen days...

Section 6 - Postponement of Trial; Further Notice - Section 6. If, at the time appointed for the trial,...

Section 7 - Sale or Destruction of Property Seized; Disposition of Proceeds - Section 7. If upon trial the property is adjudged forfeited,...

Section 8 - Appeal From Decree of Forfeiture; Recognizance; Jury Trial; Conformity to Criminal Cases; Disposition of Articles - Section 8. A person aggrieved by a decree of forfeiture...

Section 9 - Rewards Offered by Governor; Determination of Claims - Section 9. The governor, if he deems the public good...

Section 10 - Rewards Offered by Aldermen, Selectmen or Mayor; Determination of Claims - Section 10. The aldermen or the selectmen, if in their...

Section 10a - Authority of Officer of Another State to Arrest Felon - Section 10A. Any member of a duly organized state, county...

Section 10b - Proceedings After Arrest Made in Commonwealth by an Officer of Another State - Section 10B. If an arrest is made in this commonwealth...

Section 10c - Partial Invalidity - Section 10C. If any part of sections ten A and...

Section 10d - Uniform Extraterritorial Arrest on Fresh Pursuit; Short Title; Uniform Construction - Section 10D. Sections ten A to ten C, inclusive, may...

Section 11 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 11 to 20r - Section 11. Wherever appearing in sections eleven to twenty R,...

Section 12 - Arrest and Delivery of Accused to Executives of Another State; Governor's Authority - Section 12. Subject to the provisions of sections eleven to...

Section 13 - Surrendering Accused Not in Demanding State at Time of Crime or Leaving Demanding State Involuntarily - Section 13. The governor may also surrender, on demand of...

Section 14 - Written Demand; Allegations; Accompanying Papers; Charge of Crime; Authentication of Copies of Papers - Section 14. No demand for the interstate rendition of a...

Section 15 - Investigation of Demand and Report to Governor - Section 15. When a demand shall be made upon the...

Section 16 - Governor's Warrant of Arrest; Recital of Facts - Section 16. If the governor decides that the demand should...

Section 17 - Arrest and Delivery of Accused; Commanding Aid - Section 17. Such warrant shall authorize the person to whom...

Section 18 - Authority to Command Assistance; Penalties for Refusal - Section 18. Every such person empowered to make an arrest...

Section 19 - Rights of Arrested Person; Habeas Corpus; Notice; Penalty - Section 19. No person arrested upon such a warrant shall...

Section 20 - Confinement of Accused; Expense; Evidence of Transportation to Demanding State; New Requisition - Section 20. The officer or other person executing the governor's...

Section 20a - Warrant to Apprehend on Oath or Affidavit; Copies of Papers Attached - Section 20A. Whenever any person within this commonwealth shall be...

Section 20b - Arrest Without Warrant; Taking Accused Before Court or Justice; Complaint - Section 20B. The arrest of a person may be lawfully...

Section 20c - Commitment to Permit Arrest Under Warrant of Governor on Requisition - Section 20C. If from the examination before such court or...

Section 20d - Bail - Section 20D. Unless the offence with which the person arrested...

Section 20e - Discharge; Recommitment; Bail - Section 20E. If the accused has not been arrested under...

Section 20f - Forfeiture of Bail - Section 20F. If the accused is admitted to bail, and...

Section 20g - Prosecution Pending in Commonwealth - Section 20G. If a criminal prosecution has been instituted against...

Section 20h - Inquiry Into Guilt or Innocence - Section 20H. The guilt or innocence of the accused as...

Section 20i - Recall of Warrant or Issuance of Another - Section 20I. The governor, whenever he deems proper, may recall...

Section 20j - Waiver of Warrant and Procedure, Etc. - Section 20J. Any person arrested in this commonwealth charged with...

Section 20k - Warrant to Receive Accused and Convey Him to Proper County; Proceedings Pending in Another State - Section 20K. Whenever the governor shall demand a person charged...

Section 20l - Application for Requisition - Section 20L. (a) Whenever the return to this commonwealth of...

Section 20m - Payment of Agent's Expenses - Section 20M. If the application for a requisition for the...

Section 20n - Service of Process in Civil Action on Accused; Immunity - Section 20N. A person brought into this commonwealth on, or...

Section 20o - Trying for Other Crimes; Immunity - Section 20O. After a person has been brought into this...

Section 20p - Waiver by Commonwealth - Section 20P. Nothing in sections eleven to twenty O, inclusive,...

Section 20q - Severability - Section 20Q. If any part of sections eleven to twenty...

Section 20r - Uniform Criminal Interstate Rendition Law; Short Title; Uniform Construction - Section 20R. Sections eleven to twenty R, inclusive, may be...

Section 21 - Warrants to Arrest; Issuance of Process for Apprehension of Persons Charged With Crime by Certain Justices - Section 21. Justices of the supreme judicial, superior or district...

Section 22 - Warrants, Procedure for Issuance - Section 22. Upon complaint made to any justice that a...

Section 23 - Service of Warrants and Other Processes - Section 23. Warrants and other processes issued for the apprehension...

Section 23a - Warrant Management System - Section 23A. Whenever a court is requested to issue a...

Section 23b - Annual List of Persons Registered With Licensing Authorities; Department of Criminal Justice Information Services; Outstanding Warrants; Notification of License Suspension; Hearing - Section 23B. (a) Any agency, department, commission, division or authority...

Section 24 - Summons Instead of Warrant - Section 24. Upon a complaint or indictment for any offense,...

Section 25 - Summons Fixing Time for Trial; Service - Section 25. A summons shall require the defendant to appear...

Section 26 - Failure to Appear and Abide Orders as Contempt - Section 26. If a defendant so summoned fails, without reasonable...

Section 27 - Recognizance - Section 27. If a defendant so summoned duly appears, he...

Section 28 - Arrest Without Warrant - Section 28. Any officer authorized to serve criminal process may...

Section 29 - Outstanding Warrant Check Prior to Release on Bail or Recognizance - Section 29. Before a court releases, discharges or admits to...

Section 30 - Recall of Default Warrant; Arrest - Section 30. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the...

Section 31 - Default Warrants Issued Due to Failure to Pay Fines, Assessments, Court Costs, Restitution, Support Payments, Etc. to Be Noted in Warrant Management System - Section 31. Whenever a court issues a default warrant solely...

Section 32 - Payment of Fine, Assessment, Costs, Restitution, Support Payment, etc.; Release From Custody - Section 32. Whenever a person, brought before a court, against...

Section 33 - Examination of Arrested Persons for Injuries; Reports; Penalty - Section 33. Whenever a person is arrested for a crime...

Section 33a - Use of Telephone in Places of Detention - Section 33A. The police official in charge of the station...

Section 35 - Adjournments of Examinations and Trials - Section 35. The court or justice may adjourn an examination...

Section 36 - Failure to Appear; Default on Recognizance; Subsequent Proceedings - Section 36. If the recognizor does not appear according to...

Section 37 - Failure to Recognize; Subsequent Proceedings - Section 37. If the defendant fails to recognize, he may...

Section 37a - Assignment of Counsel - Section 37A. If a person is charged with a capital...

Section 38 - Examination; Assistance of Counsel; Waiver of Indictment - Section 38. The court or justice before whom a person...

Section 40 - Testimony Reduced to Writing; Signing by Witnesses - Section 40. The testimony of the witnesses examined shall be...

Section 41 - Discharge of Prisoner - Section 41. If it appears, upon the whole examination, that...

Section 42 - Bail or Commitment - Section 42. If it appears that a crime has been...

Section 42a - Bail or Personal Recognizance; Terms and Conditions to Protect Persons Suffering Physical Abuse - Section 42A. Whenever a court issues a criminal complaint and...

Section 43 - Conveying Prisoner Through Another County - Section 43. If the journey from the town where the...

Section 44 - Fees and Expenses in District Court in Record Sent to Superior Court - Section 44. If the defendant is held to appear before...

Section 45 - Witnesses Bound by Recognizance - Section 45. If the prisoner is admitted to bail or...

Section 46 - Witnesses Bound by Recognizance on Adjournment - Section 46. If the examination or trial of a defendant...

Section 47 - Sureties With Recognizance - Section 47. The court, if satisfied that there is good...

Section 48 - Recognizances for Minor Witnesses - Section 48. If a minor is a material witness, any...

Section 49 - Commitment of Witnesses; Discharge Upon Recognizance - Section 49. A witness who, when required, refuses to recognize,...

Section 51 - Release of Committed Witnesses; Proceedings - Section 51. If a witness has been committed because of...

Section 52 - Rules Regulating Treatment of Committed Witnesses; Removal to Another County - Section 52. The commissioner of correction shall from time to...

Section 52a - Removal of Accused Person to Another County or to a Correctional Institution; Return; Proceedings; Costs - Section 52A. Persons held in jail for trial may, with...

Section 53 - Transporting Male and Female Prisoners - Section 53. An officer who, having the custody or control...

Section 54 - Handcuffing Committed Witnesses to Accused Persons; Transporting Together - Section 54. An officer who, having the custody of a...

Section 55 - Discharge Upon Acknowledgment of Satisfaction for Injury - Section 55. If a person committed to jail is under...

Section 56 - Filing of Order; Delivery to Jail Keeper; Discharge as Bar to Civil Action - Section 56. Such order discharging the recognizance, indictment or complaint...

Section 56a - Abuse Occurring Prior to or in Conjunction With Charged Crime Against Person or Property; Investigation Prior to Release, Discharge or Admittance to Bail; Preliminary Written Statement to Be Filed and Maintained in Statewide Domestic Vi... - Section 56A. Before a judge of the superior court, district...

Section 57 - Bail; Officials Authorized to Admit to Bail; Amount of Bail; Security - Section 57. A justice of the supreme judicial or superior...

Section 58 - Release on Personal Recognizance or Unsecured Appearance Bond; Determination; Fees; Refusal; Petition for Review - Section 58. A justice or a clerk or assistant clerk...

Section 58a - Conditions for Release of Persons Accused of Certain Offenses Involving Physical Force or Abuse; Hearing; Order; Review - Section 58A. (1) The commonwealth may move, based on dangerousness,...

Section 58b - Revocation of Release and Detention Order Following Violation of Release Conditions - Section 58B. A person who has been released after a...

Section 60 - Bail in Suffolk County; Proceedings - Section 60. After a conviction or a plea of guilty...

Section 61 - Bail Taken Out of Court; Certificate or Recognizance and Deposit by Surety; Presence of Persons; Monthly Statements by Person Taking Bail - Section 61. If bail is taken out of court, the...

Section 61b - Compensation for Acting as Surety Prohibited - Section 61B. No surety under this chapter shall be compensated...

Section 62 - Notice to District Attorney of Application to Accept Bail in Suffolk County - Section 62. If application is made to a person authorized...

Section 63 - Compensation for Taking Bail - Section 63. No justice of any court, except a special...

Section 64 - Admission to Bail on Sunday - Section 64. Persons held in custody or committed upon a...

Section 65 - Condition of Recognizance - Section 65. The condition of a recognizance of a person,...

Section 66 - Return of Recognizance and Examination Taken by Magistrate; Order Compelling; Contempt - Section 66. A recognizance and examination taken by a magistrate...

Section 68 - Surrender of Principal; Notice; Exoneration of Bail; Return of Deposits; Subsequent Bail - Section 68. Bail in criminal cases may be exonerated at...

Section 69 - Surrender of Principal After Default; Remission of Penalty - Section 69. Bail may surrender their principal at any time...

Section 70 - Inability to Surrender Principal; Exoneration of Bail - Section 70. If, by the act of God, of the...

Section 71 - Default on Recognizance - Section 71. If a person under recognizance to appear and...

Section 72 - Surety Paying Amount for Which Bound; Costs - Section 72. A surety in such recognizance may, by leave...

Section 73 - Award of Portion of Penalty to Person Entitled to Forfeiture - Section 73. If, in a suit on a recognizance to...

Section 74 - Judgment for Whole or Part of Penalty - Section 74. If the penalty of a recognizance of a...

Section 75 - Neglect, Omissions or Defects as Defeating Action - Section 75. Such action shall not be barred or defeated,...

Section 76 - Review and Rehearing of Case After Judgment on Recognizance - Section 76. A court which has rendered judgment on a...

Section 77 - Service of Notice and Copy of Petition; Return Day - Section 77. Notice of the petition and a copy thereof...

Section 78 - Proceedings if Former Judgment Diminished, etc.; Costs - Section 78. If the court finds that a part of...

Section 79 - Personal Recognizance and Deposit Instead of Sureties for Release From Custody - Section 79. A person held in custody or committed upon...

Section 80 - Forfeiture of Deposit on Default; Sale of Bonds; Collection on Bank Books; Payments to State Treasurer - Section 80. At any time after default of the defendant,...

Section 81 - Defendant Surrendering Self; Return of Deposit - Section 81. The defendant may surrender himself at any time...

Section 82 - Magistrates Authorized to Admit Prisoners to Bail - Section 82. The term ''magistrate'', in any section of the...

Section 82a - Failure to Appear in Court After Release on Bail or Recognizance; Penalty - Section 82A. A person who is released by court order...

Section 83 - Probation Officers; Applicants for Appointment as a Probation Officer; Examination; Investigation and Interview; Promotion; Publication of Standards - Section 83. (a) Each applicant for initial appointment as a...

Section 85 - Powers and Duties of Probation Officers - Section 85. Each person who receives an appointment as a...

Section 85a - Probation Officers of the Probate Court; Support and Maintenance Enforcement - Section 85A. In addition to other duties, a probation officer...

Section 85b - Probation Officers of the Probate Court; Collection of Delinquent Payments Due Under Order of the Court; Recommendations to the Court - Section 85B. Said probation officer shall have full power, by...

Section 87 - Placing Certain Persons in Care of Probation Officer - Section 87. The superior court, any district court and any...

Section 87a - Conditions of Probation; Probation Fees - Section 87A. The conditions of probation imposed by a court...

Section 87b - Compliance Credits Earned by Eligible Offender; Accrual; Revocation; Calculation of Supervision Termination Date - [Text of section applicable as provided by 2018, 72, Sec....

Section 88 - Clerical Assistance - Section 88. Every court appointing probation officers may employ such...

Section 89 - Temporary Probation Officers - Section 89. The superior court or the justice of a...

Section 89a - Counsellors to Juvenile Offenders - Section 89A. The superior court or the justice of a...

Section 89b - Probation Officers Appointed to Exclusively Supervise Young Adults; Selection; Training - Section 89B. Probation officers appointed under subsection (f) of section...

Section 90 - Powers of Probation Officers; Reports; Records; Inspection - Section 90. A probation officer shall not be an active...

Section 91 - Power of Probation Officers Appointed by Boston Juvenile Court to Serve Process - Section 91. Probation officers appointed by the Boston juvenile court...

Section 92 - Restitution or Reparation to Injured Person Through Probation Officer - Section 92. If a person is placed on probation upon...

Section 92a - Restitution in Cases Involving Motor Vehicle Theft or Fraudulent Claims - Section 92A. A person found guilty of violating the provisions...

Section 93 - Payment to Treasurer of Unclaimed Money Collected by Probation Officer - Section 93. Except as provided by section one of chapter...

Section 94 - Expenses of Probation Officers - Section 94. The reasonable expenses, including supplies and equipment, incurred...

Section 95 - Temporary Support or Transportation of Probationers - Section 95. The superior courts or the Boston, Springfield, Bristol...

Section 96 - Penalty for Refusal or Neglect of Duties by Probation Officer - Section 96. Any probation officer who refuses or neglects to...

Section 97 - Interference With Duties of Department of Youth Services - Section 97. Sections eighty-three to ninety-six, inclusive, shall not authorize...

Section 98 - Office of Probation; Commissioner of Probation - Section 98. There shall be an office of probation which...

Section 98a - Advisory Board to Commissioner of Probation and Court Administrator - Section 98A. There shall be a board to advise the...

Section 99 - Powers and Duties of Commissioner of Probation - Section 99. The commissioner shall have executive control and supervision...

Section 99b - Probation Officers; Compensation - Section 99B. (1) In those courts or regions having fewer...

Section 99e - Indigency; Interagency Service Agreements; Income Data Verification - Section 99E. (a) The commissioner of probation shall enter into...

Section 99f - Performance Measurement System for the Office of Probation and Private Organizations Under Contract With the Commonwealth - Section 99F. (a) The commissioner of probation shall establish a...

Section 99g - Pretrial Services Initiative; Supervisor of Pretrial Services; Duties; Staff; Reports - Section 99G. (a) There shall be in the office of...

Section 100 - Detailed Reports of Probation Work; Records; Accessibility of Information - Section 100. Every probation officer, or the chief or senior...

Section 100a - Requests to Seal Files; Conditions; Application of Section; Effect of Sealing of Records - Section 100A. Any person having a record of criminal court...

Section 100b - Requests to Seal Delinquency Files or Records; Conditions; Sealing by Commissioner; Notice for Compliance; Effect of Sealing; Limited Disclosure - Section 100B. Any person having a record of entries of...

Section 100c - Sealing of Records or Files in Certain Criminal Cases; Effect Upon Employment Reports; Enforcement - Section 100C. In any criminal case wherein the defendant has...

Section 100d - Availability of Sealed Criminal Record Information - Section 100D. Notwithstanding any provision of section 100A, 100B, or...

Section 100e - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 100e Through 100u - Section 100E. As used in sections 100E through 100U, the...

Section 100f - Petition for Expungement of Record as Adjudicated Delinquent or Youthful Offender - Section 100F. (a) A petitioner who has a record as...

Section 100g - Petition for Expungement of Record of Conviction - Section 100G. (a) A petitioner who has a record of...

Section 100h - Petition for Expungement of Record Without Adjudication as Delinquent or Youthful Offender or Conviction - Section 100H. (a) A petitioner who has a record that...

Section 100i - Certification of Eligibility for Expungement - Section 100I. (a) The commissioner shall certify that a record...

Section 100j - Offenses Excluded From Eligibility of Record for Expungement - Section 100J. (a) No criminal record resulting from a disposition...

Section 100k - Expungement of Record Resulting From False Identification, an Offense No Longer a Crime at Time of Expungement, Error or Fraud - Section 100K. (a) Notwithstanding the requirements of section 100I and...

Section 100l - Duty of Clerk of Court and Commissioner of Criminal Justice Information to Expunge Court Records and Police Logs Upon Order Issued Pursuant to Secs. 100f, 100g, 100h or 100k - Section 100L. (a) Upon receipt of an order by a...

Section 100m - Failure to Acknowledge Expunged Record as Basis for Perjury or False Statement - Section 100M. No person whose record was expunged pursuant to...

Section 100n - Employment Applications and Trade or Professional Licensures; Effect of Expunged Records - Section 100N. (a) A record expunged pursuant to section 100F,...

Section 100o - Petitions for Expungement and Related Records Excluded as Public Records - Section 100O. A petition for an expungement, any records related...

Section 100p - Exclusion of General Public From Proceedings Relating to Petition for Expungement - Section 100P. The court shall exclude the general public from...

Section 100q - Sealed or Expunged Records Not to Be Available for Inspection - Section 100Q. No person shall make records sealed pursuant to...

Section 100r - Waiver of Right to Expunge as Condition of Plea Deal - Section 100R. It shall be a violation of public policy...

Section 100s - Negligence Claims; Employers and Landlords Presumed to Have No Notice of Seal, Expunged or Otherwise Protected Records - Section 100S. In a claim for negligence, an employer or...

Section 100t - Notice of Sealed and Expunged Records to Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Department of Justice - Section 100T. Upon sealing a record pursuant to section 100A...

Section 100u - Administration and Enforcement of Secs. 100e to 100t - Section 100U. The court, the office and the department may...

Section 101 - Annual Report of Commissioner to General Court - Section 101. The commissioner of probation shall make an annual...

Section 101a - Establishment of Uniform Forms of Blanks and Records for Use in District Court Probation Offices - Section 101A. The commissioner of probation shall establish uniform forms...

Section 102 - Effect of Secs. 98 to 101a on Authority of Courts - Section 102. Sections ninety-eight to one hundred and one A,...

Section 103 - Notice to Commissioner of Appointment, Removal, etc., of Probation Officer - Section 103. Upon the appointment, removal, retirement, resignation, death, or...

Chapter 276a - District Court Pretrial Diversion of Selected Offenders

Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. The following words, as used in this chapter,...

Section 2 - Jurisdiction of Court - Section 2. The district courts, and in Boston, the municipal...

Section 3 - Screening of Defendants; Continuance - Section 3. The probation officers of a district or municipal...

Section 4 - Inapplicability of Chapter to Certain Persons; Exceptions - Section 4. (a) For the purposes of this section, the...

Section 5 - Assessment Report; Recommendations; Final Determination; Stay of Criminal Proceedings - Section 5. Upon the expiration of a fourteen-day continuance granted...

Section 6 - Violations by Defendant; Hearing; Termination of Stay - Section 6. During a stay of proceedings or a continuance...

Section 7 - Expiration of Stay or Continuance; Report of Successful Completion or Recommendation of Extension - Section 7. Upon the expiration of the initial ninety-day stay...

Section 10 - Diversion of Veterans, Persons on Active Service in the Armed Forces or Persons With History of Military Service - Section 10. A probation officer of a district court, in...

Section 11 - Continuance for Veterans, Persons on Active Service in the Armed Forces or Persons With History of Military Service for Assessment and Advisement by State or Federal Agency Having Knowledge and Experience in Veterans Affairs - Section 11. A defendant who is determined to be a...

Section 12 - Discretionary Authority to Divert Offender Not Limited by This Chapter or Chapter 276b - Section 12. Nothing in this chapter or chapter 276B shall...

Chapter 276b - Restorative Justice

Section 2 - Voluntary Participation in Community-Based Restorative Justice Program by Juvenile and Adult Defendants; Disposition of Case Upon Completion - Section 2. Participation in a community-based restorative justice program shall...

Chapter 277 - Indictments and Proceedings Before Trial

Section 1 - Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors; Attendance at Sittings of Court - Section 1. The clerk of the courts for each county,...

Section 1a - Completion of Investigations by Grand Juries; Notice; Order - Section 1A. Upon a written notice by the attorney general...

Section 2 - Suffolk County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2. The clerk of the superior court for criminal...

Section 2a - Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Special Grand Jury - Section 2A. The clerk of the courts in any county,...

Section 2b - Middlesex County; Issuance of Letters of Venire for Grand Jurors - Section 2B. The clerk of courts in Middlesex county shall,...

Section 2c - Hampden County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2C. The clerk of the court for Hampden county...

Section 2d - Plymouth County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2D. The clerk of the court for Plymouth County...

Section 2e - Worcester County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2E. The clerk of the court for Worcester county...

Section 2f - Norfolk County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2F. The clerk of the court for Norfolk county...

Section 2g - Essex County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2G. The clerk of the court for Essex county...

Section 2h - Bristol County; Issuance of Writs of Venire Facias for Grand Jurors - Section 2H. The clerk of the court for Bristol county...

Section 3 - Drawing and Summoning of Grand Jurors - Section 3. Grand jurors shall be drawn, summoned and returned...

Section 3a - Suffolk County; Impanelling Grand Jurors - Section 3A. On the day when veniremen are summoned pursuant...

Section 4 - Deficiency of Grand Jurors - Section 4. If there is a deficiency of grand jurors,...

Section 5 - Impanelling and Oath - Section 5. The clerk of the court shall prepare an...

Section 6 - Affirmation in Lieu of Oath - Section 6. If a person who is returned as a...

Section 11 - Re-Summoning at Same Sitting - Section 11. If the grand jury are dismissed before the...

Section 14 - Grand Juror Serving as Traverse Juror - Section 14. No member of the grand jury which has...

Section 14a - Right to Counsel; Grand Jury Proceedings - Section 14A. Any person shall have the right to consult...

Section 15 - Discharge of Accused Person Not Indicted - Section 15. The grand jury shall, during its session, make...

Section 18 - Circumstances of the Act - Section 18. The circumstances of the act may be stated...

Section 19 - Name of Accused Person; Description by Fictitious Name; Entry of True Name - Section 19. If the name of an accused person is...

Section 20 - Time and Place of Commission of Crime - Section 20. The time and place of the commission of...

Section 21 - Means - Section 21. The means by which a crime is committed...

Section 22 - Description of Written Instrument; Variance - Section 22. If an allegation relative to a written instrument...

Section 23 - Description of Money - Section 23. If an allegation relative to any bullion, money,...

Section 24 - Description of Value or Price - Section 24. The value or price of property need not...

Section 25 - Description of Ownership - Section 25. If an indictment for a crime involving the...

Section 26 - Description of Public Place - Section 26. If one element of the criminality of an...

Section 27 - Description of Animal - Section 27. In an indictment for the larceny of an...

Section 28 - Description of Judicial Proceedings - Section 28. If it is necessary to set forth the...

Section 29 - Criminal Responsibility - Section 29. An allegation that the defendant committed the act...

Section 30 - Intent to Injure or Defraud; General Allegation - Section 30. If an intent to injure or defraud is...

Section 31 - Alternative Allegations - Section 31. Different means or different intents by or with...

Section 32 - Continuing Offenses - Section 32. An allegation that a crime was committed or...

Section 33 - Unnecessary and Immaterial Allegations - Section 33. Presumptions and conclusions of law, matters of which...

Section 34 - Immaterial Defects - Section 34. An indictment shall not be dismissed or be...

Section 35 - Variance; Prejudice - Section 35. A defendant shall not be acquitted on the...

Section 36 - Scope of Word ''oath'' - Section 36. The word ''oath'' as used in an indictment...

Section 37 - Negativing Excuses, Exceptions or Provisos - Section 37. An excuse, exception or proviso not stated in...

Section 38 - Allegations, Bill of Particulars, Presumption and Proof in Prosecutions Involving Controlled Substances - Section 38. In a prosecution under any provision of chapter...

Section 39 - Construction of Certain Words Used in Indictment - Section 39. The words used in an indictment may, except...

Section 41 - Indictment for Criminal Dealing With Personal Property - Section 41. In an indictment for criminal dealing with personal...

Section 42 - Prosecutions for Buying, Receiving or Aiding in Concealment of Stolen Property - Section 42. In prosecutions for buying, receiving or aiding in...

Section 43 - Indictment for Perjury - Section 43. In an indictment for perjury alleged to have...

Section 44 - Indictment for Subornation of Perjury - Section 44. If, in an indictment for subornation of perjury...

Section 45 - Indictment for Unnatural and Lascivious Acts - Section 45. In an indictment under section thirty-five of chapter...

Section 47 - Arraignment in Capital Cases; Sentence; Assignment of Counsel - Section 47. If a prisoner, under indictment for a capital...

Section 47a - Defenses or Objections; Time of Motion - Section 47A. In a criminal case, any defense or objection...

Section 53 - District Attorneys; Authority and Duty as to Transferred Cases - Section 53. If a case is transferred for plea or...

Section 54 - Custody and Delivery of Prisoner - Section 54. If a change of venue is ordered, the...

Section 55 - Compensation of Counsel of Prisoner - Section 55. A justice of the court, sitting at the...

Section 56 - Expenses of Counsel of Prisoner - Section 56. The reasonable expenses incurred and paid by counsel...

Section 57 - Venue for Prosecution of Crimes Committed Near Boundary Line of Counties, etc.; Crimes Committed on Sea - Section 57. A crime committed on or within one hundred...

Section 57a - Venue in Cases Where Crime Was Committed Without County or Territorial Jurisdiction of Court - Section 57A. A defendant shall not be discharged for want...

Section 58 - Larceny; Venue - Section 58. Larceny, whether at common law or as defined...

Section 58a - Buying, Receiving, Concealing or Aiding in Concealment of Stolen or Embezzled Property; Venue - Section 58A. The crime of buying, receiving or concealing a...

Section 58a1/2 - Computer Offenses; Venue - Section 58A1/2. The crimes described in sections thirty-three A and...

Section 58b - Embezzlement or Fraudulent Conversion or Appropriation by Fiduciaries; Venue - Section 58B. The crime of embezzlement or fraudulent conversion or...

Section 59 - Obtaining Money or Personal Chattel by False Pretences; Venue - Section 59. The crime of obtaining money or a personal...

Section 59a - Transmission of False Reports, Location of Explosives, etc.; Venue - Section 59A. The crime described in section fourteen of chapter...

Section 60 - Homicide if Injury Is in One County and Death in Another; Venue - Section 60. If a mortal wound is given, or if...

Section 61 - Crime Committed at Sea, etc., Resulting in Death in County; Venue - Section 61. If a mortal wound is given, or if...

Section 62 - Crime Committed in Commonwealth Resulting in Death Outside Commonwealth; Venue - Section 62. If a mortal wound is given, or if...

Section 62a - Violations of Chapter 209a; Venue - Section 62A. Any criminal violation of chapter two hundred and...

Section 62b - Stalking; Venue - Section 62B. The crime of stalking, as set forth in...

Section 62c - Violations of Sec. 35a of Chapter 266; Venue - Section 62C. A violation of section 35A of chapter 266...

Section 63 - Limitation of Criminal Prosecutions - Section 63. An indictment for murder may be found at...

Section 64 - Limitation of New Indictment Against Corporation After Abatement or Defeat of Former Indictment - Section 64. If an indictment, duly found and returned within...

Section 65 - Service of Copy of Indictment for Murder on Prisoner, Etc. - Section 65. After the finding of an indictment for murder,...

Section 66 - List of Jurors to Prisoners; Process for Witnesses - Section 66. A prisoner indicted for a crime punishable with...

Section 67 - Furnishing Person in Custody, etc., With Copy of Indictment - Section 67. Whoever, having been indicted for felony, is under...

Section 68 - Issuance of Subpoenas by Attorney General and District Attorneys - Section 68. The attorney general and district attorneys may issue...

Section 70 - Recognizance of Witnesses - Section 70. A justice of a court of record may...

Section 70b - Placing Cases on File; Statement of Reasons - Section 70B. Except as otherwise provided by law, a criminal...

Section 70c - Treatment of Violation of Ordinance, By-Law or Misdemeanor Offense as a Civil Infraction - Section 70C. Upon oral motion by the commonwealth or the...

Section 73 - Compensation for Confinement of Persons Discharged - Section 73. Any person in the commonwealth kept in confinement...

Section 78 - Criminal Proceedings as No Bar to Civil Action - Section 78. No proceedings against a person for a crime...

Section 79 - Application of Annexed Forms; Schedule - Section 79. The provisions of this chapter, and the forms...

Chapter 277a - Statewide Grand Jury - [Repealed, 2009, 28, Sec. 99.]

Chapter 277b - Statewide Grand Jury

Section 1 - Authority to Convene Statewide Grand Jury - [Text of section effective until December 31, 2020. Repealed by...

Section 2 - Selection of County Where Statewide Grand Jury to Sit; Appointment of Superior Court Justice to Preside - [Text of section effective until December 31, 2020. Repealed by...

Section 3 - Nature and Scope of Investigation - [Text of section effective until December 31, 2020. Repealed by...

Section 4 - Manner of Drawing and Selecting Specially-Empaneled Statewide Grand Jury - [Text of section effective until December 31, 2020. Repealed by...

Section 5 - Period During Which Statewide Grand Jury May Sit - [Text of section effective until December 31, 2020. Repealed by...

Section 6 - Powers and Duties of Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General - [Text of section effective until December 31, 2020. Repealed by...

Section 7 - County in Which Indictment to Be Returned; Venue - [Text of section effective until December 31, 2020. Repealed by...

Section 8 - Effect on Jurisdiction of County Grand Jury or District Attorney - [Text of section effective until December 31, 2020. Repealed by...

Chapter 278 - Trials and Proceedings Before Judgment

Section 1 - Trial List of Criminal Cases, Adding Cases to List - Section 1. At each session of the superior court for...

Section 2 - Trial of Issues of Fact - Section 2. Issues of fact joined upon an indictment or...

Section 4 - Oaths of Jurors - Section 4. The following oath shall be administered to the...

Section 5 - Affirmation of Jurors - Section 5. A juror who is conscientiously scrupulous of taking...

Section 6a - Testimony Concerning Ownership in Cases Involving Motor Vehicle Theft or Fraudulent Claims; Preservation of Testimony - Section 6A. At the arraignment of a defendant charged with...

Section 7 - Burden to Prove License or Admission to Practice as Attorney at Law - Section 7. A defendant in a criminal prosecution, relying for...

Section 8 - Justification in Libel Cases - Section 8. The defendant in a prosecution for writing or...

Section 8a - Killing or Injuring a Person Unlawfully in a Dwelling; Defense - Section 8A. In the prosecution of a person who is...

Section 9 - Proof of Ownership of Property - Section 9. In the prosecution of crimes which relate to...

Section 10 - Night Time; Definition - Section 10. If a crime is alleged to have been...

Section 11 - Directed Verdict; Setting Aside Verdict, New Trial or Finding of Guilty of Included Offense - Section 11. If a motion for a directed verdict of...

Section 11a - Habitual Criminals; Separate Trial on Issue of Prior Conviction - Section 11A. If a defendant is charged with a crime...

Section 12 - Acquittal of Part of Crime and Conviction of Residue - Section 12. If a person indicted for a felony is...

Section 14 - Liability for Fees of Person Acquitted - Section 14. No prisoner or person under recognizance, acquitted by...

Section 15 - Discontinuance of Prosecution Under By-Laws, Ordinances, Etc. - Section 15. In a prosecution before a district court under...

Section 16 - Assignment of Counsel for Inmates of Institutions for Reformation of Juvenile Offenders - Section 16. The court may assign counsel to an inmate...

Section 16a - Exclusion of Public From Trial for Sex Offenses Involving Minors Under Age of Eighteen - Section 16A. At the trial of a complaint or indictment...

Section 16b - Exclusion of Public From Trial of Criminal Proceeding Involving Husband and Wife - Section 16B. The presiding justice of a district court may...

Section 16c - Exclusion of Public From Trial Involving Crime of Incest or Rape - Section 16C. To protect the parties involved at a trial...

Section 16d - Child Witness Testimony; Videotaping or Transmission by Simultaneous Electronic Means in Certain Cases - Section 16D. (a) For the purposes of this section, the...

Section 16f - Expedited Trials of Sex Crimes Involving Minor Children as Victims or Witnesses; Continuance; Impact Statement - Section 16F. In any criminal proceeding involving an alleged sex...

Section 18 - Pleas of Not Guilty, Guilty or Nolo Contendere; Requests for Specific Disposition; Pretrial Motions - Section 18. A defendant who is before the Boston municipal...

Section 23 - Certain Acts or Omissions by Defendant Not Admissible Against Him in Criminal Trial - Section 23. At the trial of a criminal case in...

Section 28 - Appeal to Supreme Judicial Court - Section 28. A defendant aggrieved by a judgment of the...

Section 28a - Appellate Division of Superior Court for Review of Sentences - Section 28A. There shall be an appellate division of the...

Section 28b - Right of Appeal to Appellate Division; Time Limit; Stay of Execution of Sentence; Jurisdiction; Review of Judgment, etc.; Disposition - Section 28B. A person aggrieved by a sentence which may...

Section 28c - Amendment of Judgment; Resentencing or Other Disposition - Section 28C. If the judgment is amended by an order...

Section 28d1/2 - Salary of Clerk and Assistant Clerks of Appellate Division; Designation and Salary of Clerical Assistant in Matters Pertaining to Business of Appellate Division - Section 28D1/2. The clerk of the appellate division shall receive...

Section 28e - Appeals by Commonwealth - Section 28E. An appeal may be taken by and on...

Section 29b - Withdrawal of Uncounseled Guilty Plea - Section 29B. If a defendant having a right to counsel...

Section 29d - Conviction Upon Plea of Guilty, Nolo Contendere or an Admission to Sufficient Facts; Motion to Vacate - Section 29D. The court shall not accept a plea of...

Section 33e - Capital Cases; Review by Supreme Judicial Court - Section 33E. In a capital case as hereinafter defined the...

Section 34 - Motions in Arrest of Judgment - Section 34. No motion in arrest of judgment shall be...

Section 35 - Trial of Male and Female Prisoners - Section 35. In all trials in district courts, male and...

Chapter 278a - Post Conviction Access to Forensic and Scientific Analysis

Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words...

Section 2 - Conditions for Filing Motion for Forensic or Scientific Analysis; Affect of Chapter Upon Analysis Under Other Circumstances - Section 2. A person may file a motion for forensic...

Section 3 - Filing of Motion; Contents; Motion for Discovery; Affidavit of Factual Innocence; Expeditious Review of Motion - Section 3. (a) A person seeking relief under this chapter...

Section 4 - Jurisdiction Over Motion; Service of Motion; Response by Prosecuting Attorney - Section 4. (a) The moving party shall file a motion...

Section 5 - Appointed Counsel - Section 5. The court may assign or appoint counsel to...

Section 6 - Hearing - Section 6. (a) The court shall order a hearing on...

Section 7 - Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law; Criteria for Allowing Requested Analysis; Orders for Discovery - Section 7. (a) After reviewing the motion, the prosecuting attorney's...

Section 8 - Conditions of Analysis; Selection of Forensic Service Provider; Equal Access to Personnel and Information; Retention of Material Evidence to Allow for Replicate Analysis; Cooperation With Laboratory by Moving Party - Section 8. (a) In allowing a motion under section 3,...

Section 9 - Time for Performing Analysis - Section 9. Upon allowance of a motion under section 3,...

Section 10 - Cost of Analysis - Section 10. The costs of the analysis shall be paid:...

Section 11 - Effect of Proceedings on Terms of Sentence Imposed - Section 11. Proceedings under this chapter shall not stay or...

Section 12 - Disclosure of Analysis Results; Orders to Produce Data, Documents and Notes - Section 12. (a) The results of the analysis shall be...

Section 13 - Additional Analysis Ordered Upon Inconclusive Findings - Section 13. If the analysis is inconclusive, the court may...

Section 14 - Victim Notification - Section 14. (a) If a motion is filed under section...

Section 15 - Waiver of Right to File Motion Prohibited - Section 15. The right to file a motion under this...

Section 16 - Retention and Preservation of Evidence or Biological Material by Governmental Entities; Regulations - Section 16. (a) Any governmental entity that is in possession...

Section 17 - Civil or Criminal Liability of Governmental Officials; Willful or Wanton Misconduct or Gross Negligence by Governmental Entities Resulting in Deterioration or Destruction of Evidence; Damages - Section 17. (a) Governmental officials and employees acting in good...

Section 18 - Appeals - Section 18. An order allowing or denying a motion for...

Chapter 279 - Judgment and Execution

Section 1 - Suspension of Execution; Payment of Fine; Probation; Revocation of Suspension; Exceptions - Section 1. When a person convicted before a court is...

Section 1a - Suspension of Execution of Sentence; Probation; Child Support Payments - Section 1A. When a person convicted before a court is...

Section 1b - Funds Collection and Disbursement; Single Point for Clerk-Magistrate and Probation Offices - Section 1B. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the administrative...

Section 2 - Suspension of Execution of Orders of Commitment to Massachusetts Reformatory, Etc. - Section 2. In all cases the execution of orders of...

Section 3 - Arrest Without Warrant of Person on Probation; Notice of Surrender; Surrender Hearing; Warrant for Arrest of Persons Already Imprisoned; Application for Disposition; Temporary Custody - Section 3. At any time before final disposition of the...

Section 3a - Motion of District Attorney for Sentence - Section 3A. Not later than seven days after a plea...

Section 4 - Imposition of Sentence; Stay of Execution - Section 4. Sentence shall be imposed upon conviction of a...

Section 4b - Notice to Victim of Sentencing Proceedings; Oral or Written Statements - Section 4B. Before disposition in any case where a defendant...

Section 5 - Sentence if No Punishment Is Provided by Statute - Section 5. If no punishment for a crime is provided...

Section 6 - Sentence to Jail or House of Correction - Section 6. Whoever is convicted of a crime punishable wholly...

Section 6a - Special Sentence of Imprisonment; Eligible Offenders; Revocation or Rescission of Special Sentence; Subsequent Crimes - Section 6A. When a person is sentenced on a first...

Section 6b - Consideration of Defendant's Status as Primary Caregiver of Dependent Child Before Imposing Sentence - Section 6B. (a) As used in this section the following...

Section 7 - Sentence to Jail or House of Correction for Non-Payment of Fine - Section 7. Whoever is convicted of a crime punishable by...

Section 8 - Commitments Upon Two or More Sentences - Section 8. A convict upon whom two or more sentences...

Section 8a - Determination of Time of Taking Effect of Sentence; ''from and After'' Sentence - Section 8A. For the purpose only of determining the time...

Section 8b - Commission of Crime While Released on Personal Recognizance; Consecutive Sentence - Section 8B. If a defendant on release subject to the...

Section 9 - Second Sentence for Non-Payment of Fine - Section 9. Except as provided in section one hundred and...

Section 10 - Conditional Sentence - Section 10. If a person has been convicted of a...

Section 11 - Punishment by Imprisonment Only or by Fine Only When Law Prescribes Both - Section 11. Whoever is convicted of a crime, punishable by...

Section 12 - Recognizance of Husband Convicted of Assault Upon Wife - Section 12. Except as provided in section twenty-eight of chapter...

Section 13 - Recognizance to Keep the Peace or to Be of Good Behavior - Section 13. Except as provided in section twenty-eight of chapter...

Section 14 - Recognizance; Filing; Proceedings on Breach of Condition - Section 14. Such recognizance shall be filed of record in...

Section 15 - Sentence to Jail or House of Correction in Any County - Section 15. Whoever is convicted of a crime, punishable by...

Section 16 - Sentencing of Female to Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham - Section 16. A female, convicted of a crime punishable by...

Section 19 - Place of Imprisonment of Females Convicted of Felony - Section 19. The sentence to imprisonment of a female convicted...

Section 20 - Execution of Sentence of Imprisonment of Females Sentenced to Confinement at Hard Labor - Section 20. Subject to the preceding section, a sentence of...

Section 23 - Limitation of Sentences of Males to Jails or Houses of Correction - Section 23. No sentence of a male convict to imprisonment...

Section 24 - Indeterminate Sentence to State Prison; Determination of Sentence for Offender Aged Fourteen Through Seventeen - Section 24. If a convict is sentenced to the state...

Section 25 - Punishment of Habitual Criminals - Section 25. (a) Whoever is convicted of a felony and...

Section 26 - Further Sentence of Convict in State Prison - Section 26. A convict under sentence of imprisonment in the...

Section 27 - Immediate Execution of Sentence to State Prison of Convict Sentenced to Jail or House of Correction - Section 27. If a convict serving a sentence of imprisonment...

Section 30 - Vacation of Office From Time of Sentence to State Prison - Section 30. If a convict sentenced by a court of...

Section 33a - Credit for Days of Confinement Awaiting and During Trial - Section 33A. The court on imposing a sentence of commitment...

Section 34 - Delivery to Sheriff of Certified Transcript From Minutes of Court of Conviction and Sentence; Execution of Sentence - Section 34. When a convict is sentenced to pay a...

Section 35 - Transmission of Complaint or Indictment to Correctional Institution - Section 35. When a person is committed to any correctional...

Section 36 - Sentences to State Farm - Section 36. Except for commitments under sections thirty-five or forty-eight...

Section 37 - Setting Out Statutory Name of Crime in Warrant for Commitment - Section 37. Every warrant for the commitment of a person...

Section 38 - Powers of Sheriff or Constable in Execution of Warrant of Commitment - Section 38. A sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable, when engaged...

Section 39 - Return of Precept to Magistrate - Section 39. The officer serving the precept in a criminal...

Section 40 - Service of New Warrant of Commitment Upon Convict - Section 40. If a convict imprisoned under sentence is again...

Section 41 - Default of Corporation - Section 41. If a corporation, after being duly served with...

Section 42 - Warrant of Distress to Compel Payment of Penalty or Assessment - Section 42. If judgment is rendered against a corporation upon...

Section 57 - Death Sentence; Pronouncement or Revocation of Stay; Warrant of Conviction; Execution of Sentence; Certified Copy of Record to Governor - Section 57. Immediately upon the pronouncing of the sentence of...

Section 58 - Death Sentence Confinement; Psychiatric Examination; Transfer or Failure to Transfer to General Prison Population; Appeal; Hearing; Annual Record Review; Court Order - Section 58. The sheriff of the county in a jail...

Section 59 - Execution of Death Sentence; Time Constraints - Section 59. The sentence of death shall be executed by...

Section 60 - Means of Execution of Death Sentence - Section 60. The punishment of death shall be inflicted by...

Section 61 - Capital Crime Conviction; Imposition of Sentence; Insane and Pregnant Persons - Section 61. If a person convicted of a capital crime...

Section 62 - Delay in Execution of Death Sentence; Insanity or Pregnancy of Prisoner; Psychiatric Examination and Written Certification - Section 62. After examination by two psychiatrists designated by the...

Section 63 - Delay in Execution of Death Sentence; Consideration of Pardon - Section 63. The governor, with the advice and consent of...

Section 64 - Judicial Stay of Execution of Death Sentence; Final Determination of Judicial Questions - Section 64. The execution of a sentence of death may...

Section 65 - Witnesses; Execution of Death Sentence - Section 65. There shall be present at the execution of...

Section 66 - Execution of Death Sentence; Post Mortem Examination - Section 66. There shall be a post mortem examination by...

Section 67 - Warrant for Execution of Death Sentence; Return to Clerk of Court After Execution - Section 67. When the superintendent has executed the sentence of...

Section 68 - Special Jury Questions for First Degree Murder; Presentence Hearing Upon Conviction for Consideration of Death Penalty; Consideration by Jury of Aggravating and Mitigating Circumstances; Determination by Jury; Sentence by Court; Validity... - Section 68. In all cases in which a sentence of...

Section 69 - Aggravating and Mitigating Circumstances in Death Penalty Cases - Section 69. (a) In all cases in which the death...

Section 70 - Death Penalty Imposed; Jury Findings Necessary - Section 70. Where, upon a trial by jury, a person...

Section 71 - Review of Death Sentence; Remand; Reversal; Affirmation - Section 71. In addition to review of the entire case...

Chapter 280 - Fines and Forfeitures

Section 1 - Recovery of Fines and Forfeitures - Section 1. Fines and forfeitures exacted as punishments for offences...

Section 2 - Payment of Certain Fines and Forfeitures; Apportionment Among Beneficiaries - Section 2. A fine or forfeiture imposed by a court...

Section 3 - Proceedings to Recover Penalties; Appointment of Counsel - Section 3. In proceedings in the name of the commonwealth...

Section 4 - Criminal Prosecutions; Expenses Paid by Commonwealth; Waiver of Costs for Indigent Defendants - Section 4. Expenses arising in a criminal prosecution, including fees...

Section 5 - Appeal Briefs in Criminal Cases; Payment of Costs - Section 5. In a criminal case in which questions of...

Section 6 - Costs as Penalty for Crime; Expenses of Prosecution - Section 6. Costs shall not be imposed by a justice...

Section 6a - Special Cost Assessments; Exemption - Section 6A. Before imposing a fine or forfeiture as a...

Section 6b - Criminal Assessments - Section 6B. The court shall impose an assessment of not...

Section 6c - Assessment Proceeds - Section 6C. Any assessment imposed pursuant to section six B...

Section 7 - Certificates of Fines Imposed; Delivery to State Treasurer - Section 7. At the end of every sitting of the...

Section 8 - Transfer to State Treasurer of Fines Paid - Section 8. The clerk of the superior court for the...

Section 9 - Fines Paid; Transfer to State Treasurer by Clerks of Courts in Suffolk County - Section 9. The clerks of all courts in Suffolk county,...

Section 10 - Payment of Witness Fees; Presentment of Certificate - Section 10. The state treasurer shall pay to the persons...

Section 11 - Certification of Fines and Forfeitures; Payment to Commonwealth - Section 11. Except as otherwise provided in section eighty of...

Section 12 - Escape of Prisoner; Liability of Sheriff for Fines or Forfeitures of Prisoner - Section 12. A sheriff who, having a person in his...

Section 13 - Failure of Sheriff to Pay Fines or Forfeitures of Escaped Prisoner; Remedy - Section 13. If a sheriff neglects to make such payment...

Section 14 - Default in Fine Payment; Commitment to Jail or House of Correction; Payment to Jailer or Superintendent - Section 14. A person committed to a jail or house...

Section 15 - Quarterly Transfers to State Treasurer of Payments Received by Jailer or Superintendent; Account on Oath - Section 15. Every keeper of a jail and superintendent of...

Section 16 - Payment by State Treasurer of Expenses or Fees; Time Limit for Demand; Qualifications for Payment to Clerks of District Court - Section 16. The state treasurer shall pay over to the...

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Massachusetts General Laws Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases

Massachusetts General Laws
Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases
Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases