Plymouth District Court

The Plymouth District Court serves the South Shore towns where Route 3 meets the coast, and its docket swells every summer as the waterfront, the beaches, and the highway bring seasonal OUI, disorderly, and assault cases on top of the year-round calendar. The Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office prosecutes here as it does in Brockton, and Attorney Joe Serpa’s thirty years in Plymouth County courtrooms, through Superior Court murder trials, inform the defense of every matter in this building, from a visitor’s July OUI to a resident’s show cause notice.

Many cases in this court are resolved long before trial. Knowing how a Massachusetts criminal case can be dismissed is often the first step toward the best result.

Location and Access. The Plymouth District Court is located at 52 Obery Street, Plymouth, MA 02360, and can be reached by phone at (508) 747-8400. It sits off Route 3 near the historic waterfront.

Communities Served. Plymouth, Duxbury, Kingston, Plympton, and Pembroke. Carver matters are heard at the neighboring Wareham District Court.

OUI and the Route 3 Corridor. Route 3 and Route 44 supply a constant OUI calendar that peaks in summer. The defense examines the stop, the field tests, and the device records, and where the matter begins with a criminal citation, the four-day hearing deadline runs from the violation, through the vacation, whether anyone mentions it or not.

Seasonal and Visitor Cases. Summer brings defendants whose cases outlast their rentals: waterfront assault and disorderly matters, trespass, and beach-town incidents. Most arrive by summons, begin at a clerk-magistrate hearing, and can be handled with counsel appearing so the client does not keep driving back to Plymouth; a denial ends the matter with no record at all.

The Year-Round Docket. The court carries the county’s standard domestic violence and 209A sessions, theft calendars, and drug matters litigated at the suppression stage, each defended with the collateral consequences, license, licensure, immigration, mapped before any disposition conversation.

Prepared for Trial From Day One. See Massachusetts Criminal Defense Results. Call 617.936.0201 for a confidential consultation before your Plymouth District Court date.

Related Serpa Law Office Resources: Clerk-Magistrate Hearings • Criminal Traffic Citation • OUI Defense • I Received a Show Cause Notice • Criminal Records and CORI • Courts We Serve