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If you are not a United States citizen and you face criminal charges in Massachusetts, the stakes go beyond fines and jail time. A conviction — or in...

You pleaded guilty. Your lawyer told you it would be fine. Now you are facing deportation — or you are living under its shadow every day, afraid to...

A gun charge in Massachusetts carries a mandatory minimum sentence of eighteen months in a house of correction — no exceptions, no discretion, no way around it if...

A Brockton trafficking and firearms conviction was reversed because police time sheets, obtained through a public records request, proved the search warrant affidavit was false. Read When the...

In Commonwealth v. Garafalo, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) delivered a major blow to the government’s attempt to stretch the human trafficking statute to deliver heavy handed...

A recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling highlights the importance of fully advising defendants about the immigration consequences of a guilty plea. In Commonwealth v. Santana, the Court...

Democracy does not collapse all at once. It erodes in seemingly imperceptible increments. The result is the same: core institutions are treated as annoyances rather than guarantees; government...

This is an incredibly common belief for those charged with crimes. It is even more common for people without a long record or limited involvement in the criminal...

One of the most common questions that a Lowell criminal defense attorney will receive is what to do when the police want to talk to you? The answer...

In Commonwealth v. Raspberry, 93 Mass. App. Ct. 633 (2018), the Massachusetts Appeals Court upheld the denial of a motion to suppress evidence obtained through warrantless real-time tracking...