1st Circuit: Judge could offer own expertise on guns in criminal case
A federal judge in Boston used his personal experience with firearms to help prosecutors get over the hump in making the case to revoke a drug defendant’s supervised release — and the 1st Circuit says that’s OK. In August 2021, U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns conducted a hearing on the government’s motion to
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