a formal admission, in open court, to a set of facts that are sufficient to support a criminal conviction. Here, the criminal charges against plaintiff were dismissed after he completed a term of pretrial probation. Under Massachusetts law, a defendant may be placed on a term of pretrial probation, without either pleading guilty or admitting to sufficient facts to warrant a finding of guilty, with the understanding that the criminal charges will be dismissed after the successful completion of a term of probation. See Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 276, § 87; Commonwealth v. Millican, 449 Mass. 298, 304-05, 867 N.E.2d 725 (2007). A disposition by pretrial probation does not, under Massachusetts law, result in a conviction. See Commonwealth v. Rodriguez, 441 Mass. 1002, 1003, 802 N.E.2d 1039 (2004) (<HOLDING>). Courts are divided as to whether imposition
holding that trial judges warning that if defendant was not citizen that conviction might have consequences of deportation exclusion or denial of naturalization was sufficient even though judge did not inform defendant that his conviction would certainly result in deportation holding that disposition of pretrial probation is not a conviction or its functional equivalent under massachusetts law such that judicial warning regarding immigrar tion consequences is necessary holding that it is the conduct required to obtain a conviction rather than the consequences resulting from the crime that is relevant holding that when the consequences of the conviction are not severe and imminent an appeal is moot when the judgment is voluntarily satisfied holding blank transfers of real property are impermissible under massachusetts law