COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

MIDDLESEX, ss DISTRICT COURT DEPARTMENT
LOWELL DIVISION
NOS: 1 1 ICR005164, 6623

COMMONWEALTH
v.

CHRISTOPHER S. BERRY
MOTION, MEMORANDUM AND AFFIDAVIT FOR PRE-TRIAL DIVERSION

The Defendant moves, pursuant to M.G.L. c. 276A that this Honorable Court
divert him to a pie?trial diversion program.

As reasons therefore, Defendant, as set forth below, meets the statutory
requirements under s. 2 for diversion. Moreover, the Defendant ?has been faithfully
participating in treatment .. .at the Lowell Vet Center since November of last year. He
has identi?ed suitable treatment goals, appropriately related to the legal problems he
recently had. He has worked on those goals with good effort and solid results. Prior to
his deployment to Afghanistan, Mr. Berry did not demonstrate the kind of decision
making and behavior which led to his involvement with the courts. In my professional
gpinignilijs com bat experiences signi?cantly affected Mr. Berry and contributed to
his roblematic behavior. (See letter from Dr. Paul R. Rivest, Clinical 
dated 2/29/12, attached.) (Emphasis added.)

In support of this motion, the Defendant states as follows:

This Honorable Court may exercise ?nal jurisdiction over this matter. The
Defendant is 21 years of age, his birthday being May 14, 1990. In addition, he has not
been convicted of a violation of any law of the Commonwealth or any other state of the
United States in any criminal court proceeding, nor does he have any outstanding
warrants, continuances, appeals or criminal cases pending before any other courts of the
Commonwealth or of any other state or of the United States.

He is a member of the 65m Public Affairs Unit in the Army National Guard and
was deployed to Forward Operating Base Hughie, Jalalabad, Afghanistan from 5/2/10 to
3/28/1 I as part of the 1015? Airborne. Ten days before the end of his tour, he and his unit
were blown up by a suicide bomber while returning from a mission. As a result of his
military service, he was awarded, among others, an Afghanistan Campaign Medal with

 

 

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