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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 7 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Commonwealth v. Hayes.

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1 Commonwealth v. Hayes Anchor
mass · 1977
green “may well indicate the legislature's use of the statutory shorthand for a felony, rather than an intent to preclude a concord sentence.” 4
2 Commonwealth v. Marrone
mass · 1982
green “we do not think that the legislature would repeal by implication the commonwealth's basic sentencing structure.” 3

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