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After Held v. Montana was decided, and I read Peter Vetere’s blog post, I’ve been thinking about the Massachusetts Constitution. Would Massachusetts’ youth have similar success arguing...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people proudly sported t-shirts, caps, stickers, and other accessories with the words “I Will Not Comply,” “I Did Not Comply,” “He/She/...

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Across our country, there is a wave of reactionary and politically motivated assaults on the rights of LGBTQ+ community members to live openly and equally in our society. Massachusetts is not immune from these attempts, but fortunately our state constitution ensures that they will not succeed. Recently, the ACLU of Massachusetts intervened to ensure that

DEPOSIT PHOTOS Criminal defense attorneys say a recent Supreme Judicial Court decision should give defendants a better chance of establishing that a pedestrian stop was racially motivated in violation of equal protection guarantees under the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. In the case in question, three Boston police officers in an unmarked vehicle received reports of

A bill introduced in the Massachusetts House would limit the use of data collected by automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) in the state. The proposed law would also place roadblocks in the way of a federal program using states to help track the location of millions of everyday people through pictures of their license plates.

Where a defendant’s probation was revoked, that decision should be upheld despite the defendant’s contention that the wiretap statute, G.L.c. 272, §99, precluded the use of the footage from a police officer’s body-worn camera at his probation violation proceeding. “While on probation for assault and battery, G.L.c. 265, §13A, and for violating an abuse prevention

Where a police officer investigating an armed robbery conducted an investigatory stop and patfrisk of a defendant, a Superior Court judge’s decision to deny the defendant’s motion to suppress should be affirmed because the officer who stopped the defendant had reasonable suspicion to do so. “On a rainy, early morning in August of 2018, Boston

Where a defendant was convicted of various charges arising from the operation of a series of brothels, the convictions should be upheld despite the defendant’s contention that the evidence did not establish that he knew of the sexual services operation and did not establish that he derived support from it. “Following a jury trial in

Evidence obtained during an investigatory stop of a robbery suspect should not be suppressed under the collective knowledge doctrine, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in a split decision. Boston police officers received a report of an armed robbery at a gas station in Dorchester. Seven minutes after the first dispatch, and one street away