Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court February 1, 1995 (Rudnicki v. District Court Department of the Trial Court)

The plaintiff filed a petition for mandamus in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County, based on essentially two claims: (1) that the plaintiff was “framefd]” by four criminal charges in 1988 while he was campaigning for a Democratic presidential candidate and that he was illegally committed to “Bridgewater Correctional Institution” for observation and (2) that magistrates refused to allow