# Commonwealth v. Pelosi

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · March 19, 2004 · 441 Mass. 257

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6452905

## Case

- **Full name:** Commonwealth v. Francis Pelosi
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** March 19, 2004
- **Citations:** 441 Mass. 257; 805 N.E.2d 1; 2004 Mass. LEXIS 140
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Cowin
- **Judges:** Cordy, Cowin
- **Cited by:** 12 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Cowin, J.
(concurring, with whom Sosman, J., joins). On the assumption that the Bishop-Fuller protocol (see Commonwealth v. Bishop, 416 Mass. 169, 181 [1993]; Commonwealth v. Fuller, 423 Mass. 216, 226 [1996]) continues to have any vitality, I concur with the result reached by the court. However, I adhere, as previously, to the view expressed by Justice Sosman, Commonwealth v. Sheehan, 435 Mass. 183, 194 (2001) (Sosman, J., concurring), that the protocol governing access to these types of records is “both unduly cumbersome and constitutionally flawed.”

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