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Appeals court reviews probation revocation and sentence in Commonwealth v. Hunt
Summary
Appellate arguments focused on whether the trial judge had sufficient evidence to find multiple probation violations, whether some violations were moot after subsequent pleas, whether hearsay and credibility findings supported revocation, and whether the sentence exceeded guidelines or was influenced by improper factors.
The Appeals Court heard argument in Commonwealth v. Michael Hunt on whether the trial court properly revoked probation and imposed a 9-to-11-year sentence. Attorney Edward Elliott, representing Hunt, argued multiple points of error and urged the panel to correct what he described as an injustice stemming from the final probation-revocation hearing.
Elliott told the court the Commonwealth relied on weak or conflicting evidence for several alleged probation violations. He said the key contested violation—alleged…
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