Commonwealth v. Rzepphiewski, 431 Mass. 48, 725 N.E.2d 210 (Mass. 2000) (reconstructed record, based on affidavit of judge plus court docket, is sufficient to constitute a record of the giving of the statutory advisal concerning potential immigration consequences required by Mass. Gen. Laws, ch. 278, 29D (2004), in response to defendant's motion to vacate where official records have been destroyed in regular course of business); see Commonwealth v. Ciampa, 51 Mass. App. Ct. 459, 747 N.E.2d 185, 187 (Mass. App. 2001) (non-contemporaneous record that statutory warnings had been given sufficient as evidence that state advisal statute had not been violated).
jurisdiction:
Lower Courts of First Circuit