Mass. Gen. Laws » Part I Title II Chapter 12
Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 12, § 34 (2026)

Pre-arraignment diversion program

✓ current as of July 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section MAmalegislature.gov (official) JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

Section 34. The district attorneys shall, within their respective districts, establish a pre-arraignment diversion program which may be used to divert a veteran or person who is in active service in the armed forces, a person with a substance use disorder or a person with mental illness if such veteran or person is charged with an offense or offenses against the commonwealth.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2019–2019 · leading case: Commonwealth v. Newberry (Mass. 2019).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
Commonwealth v. Newberry (Mass. 2019). · cites it 4× “Compare G. L. c. 12, § 34, G. L. c. 119, § 54A, and G.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.