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Massachusetts Supreme Court Announces When Clock Begins to Run on Statutory Pretrial Detention
Loaded on May 15, 2023
by Harold Hempstead
published in Criminal Legal News
June, 2023, page 28
Filed under:
Pretrial Detention and Detainees,
Bail/Pretrial Release,
Speedy Trial Clock - Tolling of.
Location:
Massachusetts.
by Harold Hempstead
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that the pretrial detention period in General Laws c. 276, § 58B begins to run when a defendant is detained, not when an order of detention is formally issued.
On December 26, 2021, while Chayanne Velazquez was on bail on ...
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