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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Where a defendant’s probation was revoked, that decision should be upheld despite the defendant’s contention that the wiretap statute, G.L.c. 272, §99, precluded the use of the footage from a police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