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• Massachusetts Legislature May Allow Juries To Decide Sex Offenders’

  Not that many people outside of the criminal defense profession or the criminal justice system are aware of this, but in Massachusetts, once a convicted sex offender’s prison sentence is finished, the story isn’t necessarily…

• Arrested In Massachusetts? Police Can’t Answer Your Cell Phone

  Here’s an interesting case that might fall under the tagline, “Don’t answer that phone!” In a case that illustrates occasional over-reaching by police officers in their attempts to secure evidence of criminal wrongdoing, a Massachusetts…

• Massachusetts High Court Rules Against D.A.'s Use of Inmates' Recorded Conversations - Part 2 of 2

  In my previous post, I discussed a recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling, concerning the admissibility of jail inmates’ recorded phone conversations. More accurately put, the decision concerns not so much the admissibility of…

• Massachusetts High Court Rules Against D.A.'s Use of Inmate's Recorded Phone Calls - Part 1 of 2

  In the constant tug-of-war between Massachusetts prosecutors’ offices and criminal defense attorneys over admissible evidence, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) yesterday issued a ruling against prosecutors, and in favor of defendants who are incarcerated…

• Massachusetts Prisoners’ Phone Conversations Aren’t Private – State Supreme Court

  The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) keeps churning out some interesting decisions, this one on the subject of the privacy, or lack thereof, that inmates and detainees in Massachusetts prisons can expect in their telephone…

• Massachusetts Law Imposing Youth Curfews Unconstitutional

  Striking down a city ordinance that I am sure was well-meaning and not malignant in its intent, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) yesterday ruled unconstitutional a city of Lowell ordinance making it a crime…

• Massachusetts High Court Approves Secret Use of GPS Tracking Devices

  In a breakthrough ruling for police and prosecutors, the state's highest court has ruled that the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights (embodied in the state Constitution,) permits police to secretly break into a suspect’s car for…

• Ghastly Massachusetts Assault & Battery: Hate’s Progeny Turns Children Murderous.

  I often wonder how people in some professions can sometimes do what they do, unavoidably exposed to what they must see as part of their work, and not give up entirely on the human race,…

• Two Massachusetts Murders Result From Dispute Over A Parking Space

  It’s stories like today’s, which would make anyone outside of the profession of criminal law or law enforcement, pause to wonder what it is inside people that causes them to sometimes act the way they…

• Massachusetts Rape Conviction Vacated Due To Prosecutor’s Closing Argument

  This case is an interesting example of the importance of prosecutors – and defense counsel - taking care to watch what they say in their closing arguments to a jury, and of how a case…