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Instead, Judge Peter W. Agnes Jr. sentenced Gomes to five years probation and Pomey to two, ignoring the district attorney’s request that the two serve jail time.
“No purpose would be served by a sentence of incarceration,” Agnes said yesterday at the sentencing hearing at Middlesex Superior Court.
Last Friday, Randy J. Gomes and Suzanne M. Pomey, members of the Class of 2002, pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $100,000 from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals organization, after originally maintaining their innocence. Judge Peter Agnes is now deciding whether to accept their pleas.
The criminal penalty for larceny over $250 in Massachusetts is up to five years in prison and restitution to the victim. However, lawyers for Gomes and Pomey argued Friday that Agnes should follow the precedent of Commonwealth v. Brandano, a 1971 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case. Under that procedure, the...
But Agnes also said that if he chose to impose a more severe punishment than the two years probation the defendants’ lawyers are asking for, he would allow them to take back their guilty pleas.