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A mistakenly lenient sentence imposed by the Appellate Division of the Superior Court could not be altered six months later, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in a split decision. The defendant, Clifford Martin, was resentenced by the Appellate Division to a term of from four to six years. The resentence was illegal because the
Defendants could be indicted for misleading investigators based on evidence that they took part in a cover-up of an altercation involving off-duty Springfield police officers, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The accusations centered on an alleged cover-up of an April 2015 altercation between off-duty Springfield Police Department officers and four Black victims near Nathan
Footage from a police officer’s body-worn camera could be introduced at a probation revocation hearing, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. The defendant contended that the wiretap statute (G.L.c. 272, §99) precluded the use of the body-worn camera footage at his probation violation proceeding. The SJC disagreed. “The Legislature's focus was the use of devices,