Court Opinion

ID: 9779687
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 00:34:18.851266+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:37.998147
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Ireland, J.
(dissenting, with whom Spina and Cowin, JJ., join). I continue to conclude, as I did in my dissent in Commonwealth v. Cory, 454 Mass. 559 (2009), that requiring that a probationer wear a global positioning system monitoring device as an additional term of probation is remedial rather than punitive and therefore properly may be imposed. Id. at 577 (Ireland, J., dissenting) (concluding that Legislature intended G. L. c. 265, § 47, to function as regulatory scheme). Accordingly, I respectfully dissent.