Mass. Gen. Laws » Part III Title I Chapter 211D
Massachusetts General Laws

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 211D, § 8 (2026)

Assignment of case of indigent accused of murder

✓ text as last checked Sept. 2026 (this copy records no edition or section history)
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section MAmalegislature.gov (official) JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

Section 8. Upon a determination by a court that a person accused of murder in the first or second degree is indigent, the chief counsel or his designee may assign the case to either the public defender division or the private counsel division, subject to the approval of the justice making the determination of indigency.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2007–2007 · leading case: Commonwealth v. Anderson, 862 N.E.2d 749 (Mass. 2007).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
Commonwealth v. Anderson, 862 N.E.2d 749 (Mass. 2007). “” See G. L. c. 211D, § 8 (CPCS assignments “subject to the approval of the justice making the determination of indigency”).”
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.