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In Commonwealth v. Larose, 483 Mass. 323 (2019), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that crossing a fog line, even briefly, constitutes a marked lanes violation under G....

In U.S. v. Moore-Bush, 381 F. Supp. 3d 139 (D. Mass. 2019), a federal judge granted a motion to suppress evidence obtained from an eight-month-long pole camera surveillance,...

In Commonwealth v. Sherman, 481 Mass. 464 (2019), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that for initially consensual intercourse to become rape due to withdrawal of consent, the...

Summary: In Commonwealth v. Alexis, 481 Mass. 91 (2018), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the suppression of evidence obtained during a warrantless entry into the defendant’s home,...

On July 18, 2018, the Supreme Judicial Court issued a new opinion in the case of Commonwealth v. Fragata, which reversed a conviction for witness intimidation. As with...

Today, June 1, 2018, the SJC issued an opinion in Commonwealth v. Jose Torres, vacating and remanding a conviction back to the Lowell Superior Court.The defendant was charged...

As knowledgeable gun crime attorneys, Ryan Sullivan and Murat Erkan make sure that they stay current on the new cases that come out of the Massachusetts Appeals Court...

In Commonwealth v. Buckley, 478 Mass. 861 (2018), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld the legality of a traffic stop under Article 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of...

In Commonwealth v. Fantauzzi, 91 Mass. App. Ct. 194 (2017), the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled that the trial court erred by not instructing the jury on self-defense in...

In Commonwealth v. Fantauzzi, 91 Mass. App. Ct. 194 (2017), the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled that the trial court erred by not instructing the jury on self-defense in...