An Act requiring only a justice to remove a trial default of a defendant who fails to appear at trial

Introduced

In Committee

Floor

Crossed Over

Passed

Enacted

Overview Bill text 1 History Sponsors

Bill Text — · 464 words Open full page ↗

HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3281 FILED ON: 1/17/2025

HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1868

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

_________________

PRESENTED BY:

Christopher M. Markey

_________________

Sign in to read the full text

The document summary and details above are public. The full text is available to signed-in accounts.

Create a free account Sign in

PASSAGE PROBABILITY

1% Unlikely

Why this number

Stage base Introduced — base rate 3%, measured from MA's completed sessions
Momentum -8 14/100 from the pace of recorded action

A transparent scoring model over stage, momentum, recency, sponsorship and recorded votes — not a trained predictor. Treat it as a way to rank attention, not as a forecast.