Westwood Disorderly Conduct Defense Lawyer
Representing Clients in Norfolk County
As with all criminal cases, the potential implications include infringements on your liberty and, therefore, it is important to treat these cases seriously. Disorderly conduct cases involve many distinct legal issues that may have an effect on the charges. Because the charge involves conduct that is so generalized, there are often many legal issues to analyze.
What Is Considered Disorderly Conduct?
Disorderly conduct is a very general term which may include a wide variety of behavior. Basically, it is behavior that disturbs the public tranquility, or alarms or upsets others. Massachusetts Law prohibits conduct that involves the use of force, violence, threats, tumultuous behavior, excessively unreasonable noise, or creating a hazard to public safety or physically offensive condition.
Whatever behavior the government alleges, it must have been reasonably likely to affect the public and either intended to or recklessly created public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm.
Common type of disorderly conduct include:
- Engaging fighting or threatening.
- Engaging in violent or tumultuous behavior.
- Creating a hazardous or physically offensive condition which serves no legitimate purpose.
What Happens if I am Charged for Disorderly Conduct?
If you are charged with disorderly conduct, it is advisable not to answer any questions until you consult an attorney. If it does not happen in the presence of the police, you should receive a summons for a Clerk’s Hearing or Magistrate’s Hearing.
What are the Penalties for Disorderly Conduct in Massachusetts?
If found guilty of disorderly conduct you may be fined for a first offense or sentenced up to 6 months in the house of correction for a second offense.
What Is the Difference Between Disturbing the Peace vs Disorderly Conduct?
Both crimes are punishable under the same statute, carry the same potential sentence, and are nearly indistinguishable. Generally speaking, disorderly conduct is charged where one’s conduct involves fighting or violent conduct which cause public inconvenience. Disturbing the peace typically involves intentionally causing loud disruptions in which one actually does annoy or disturb at least one person. Disorderly conduct includes reckless behavior whereas actions disturbing the peace must be intended.
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“I knew that I had not done the things that they charged me with but didn’t know how to prove it. I was going to lose my job if the complaint got issued in the clerk’s hearing so it was such a big deal that you kept the police from getting a com”- G. J.
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Case Dismissed Assault and Battery
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Case Dismissed Assault and Battery
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Case Dismissed Assault and Battery with a Dangerous Weapon
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Pre-trial Probation Breaking and Entering, Resisting Arrest, Disorderly Conduct
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Not Guilty Domestic Assault and Battery
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Case Dismissed Felony Larceny