Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 280 § 4

Current through Chapter 244 of the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 280:4 - Payment of expenses in criminal prosecutions by commonwealth

Expenses arising in a criminal prosecution, including fees of grand and traverse jurors for travel and attendance therein, shall be paid by the commonwealth.

Fees and costs of indigent defendants in criminal prosecutions except attorneys' fees, shall or may be waived or substituted by the court or paid by the commonwealth in accordance with the provisions of sections twenty-seven A to twenty-seven G, inclusive, of chapter two hundred and sixty-one.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 280, § 4