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Analysis of major changes to criminal law and its impact
By Avalon Zoppo | May 18, 2023
Appeals court rejects government's claims of honest services and property fraud.
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By Riley Brennan | May 17, 2023
"Recalling the mandate in the unique circumstances of Rhone's case accomplishes this mission; we must allow him to benefit from the rule he proposed that ultimately became the law in this state," the court said.
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By Allison Dunn | May 16, 2023
"The judge instructed the jury that closing arguments are not evidence, and that it was their duty to determine the facts and to apply the facts to the law as explained by the judge. The judge also properly instructed on the meaning of reasonable doubt. In light of these instructions, and the strength of the Commonwealth's case, we are confident that the ill-advised comment would have had no effect on the jury's verdict," Justice Frank M. Gaziano wrote on behalf of the unanimous Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
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By Riley Brennan | May 12, 2023
"Mr. Woods did not surrender his reasonable expectation of privacy when his wife answered a knock on the closed door of their home. Further, during the entire encounter, Mr. Woods stood behind his wife inside the home. As such, Mr. Woods was not in a 'public place' when the officers initiated the arrest," the court said. "The officers' entry into Mr. Woods' home without a warrant also was not justified given the absence of any exigent circumstances, such as the need to prevent the imminent destruction of evidence or to prevent a suspect's escape."
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By Allison Dunn | May 11, 2023
"To arrive at this counter-intuitive construction, the majority exploits a grammatical awkwardness and arrives at counter-intuitive results because the location of the overdose is wherever someone has a good faith belief that they have a life-threatening condition relating to the ingestion of drugs," Judge Vernida R. Chaney wrote in a dissenting opinion.
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By Max Mitchell | May 11, 2023
Fundraising totals so far for 2023 appear down slightly from the amounts frontrunners had brought in during the last state Supreme Court race in 2021.
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By Riley Brennan | May 11, 2023
"The totality of the circumstances shows that the State chose to remove every juror who exhibited an awareness of racial justice issues when a Black defendant was on trial," the appeals court said.
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By Brian Lee | May 11, 2023
The decision in Percoco's case, written by Justice Samuel Alito, was in line with a recent surge of decisions that limit the government's ability to prosecute defendants under particular corruption laws. A companion opinion was written by Justice Clarence Thomas.
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By Matthew T. Mangino | May 11, 2023
The American Bar Association (ABA) released its 2023 Plea Bargain Task Force Report. Three years in the making, the report revealed that in 2018, only 2% of federal criminal cases ended in a jury trial.
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By Lisa Willis | May 11, 2023
The panel also warned of consequences.
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