2019 Massachusetts General Laws
Part IV - Crimes, Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases
Title II - Proceedings in Criminal Cases
Chapter 277b - Statewide Grand Jury
Section 7 - County in Which Indictment to Be Returned; Venue

Universal Citation: MA Gen L ch 277b § 7 (2019)

[Text of section effective until December 31, 2020. Repealed by 2015, 10, Sec. 46. See 2015, 10, Sec. 71.]

Section 7. Indictments shall be returned in the county wherein the statewide grand jury sits and shall thereafter be transferred to the county specified by the statewide grand jury on the indictment. For the purposes of trial for offenses indicted by a statewide grand jury, venue shall be in any county in which venue would otherwise be proper.

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