HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 1017        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3516

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to ensure testimony in gang related cases..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Chapter 233, section 5 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

“Where the defendant is accused of a violent crime as defined in section 121 of chapter 140 that is a result of gang-related activity, the punishment for such failure to attend shall be by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year or both.”