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In Commonwealth v. Wurtzberger, 22-P-764 (2024), the Massachusetts Appeals Court affirmed the conviction of a defendant for operating under the influence (OUI) in a municipal parking lot, ruling...

In In the Matter of a Motion to Compel, 492 Mass. 811 (2023), The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that, when responding to a request under the Uniform...

InCommonwealth v. Du, 103 Mass. App. Ct. 469 (2023), the Massachusetts Appeals Court threw out of court secret audio-visual recordings of drug purchases from the defendant, made without...

The defendant in Commonwealth v. Sweeting-Bailey, 488 Mass. 741 (2021), argued that a firearm discovered during a patfrisk should be suppressed, claiming that the traffic stop was a...

In Project Veritas Action Fund v. Rollins, 982 F.3d 813 (1st Cir. 2020), the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court’s decision in favor of the...

In Commonwealth v. Long, 485 Mass. 711 (2020), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court revised the burden of proof for defendants claiming racial profiling in traffic stops. The court...

In Commonwealth v. Masa, 1981CR0307 (Mass. Super. Ct. 2020), a superior court judge overruled the defendant’s objection to conducting a suppression hearing via Zoom video conference, finding that...

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...