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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...

In Commonwealth v. Gomes, 91 Mass. App. Ct. 1 (2017), the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled that a defendant’s post-Miranda invocation of the right to remain silent, even in...

In United States v. Bramley, 847 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2017), the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court’s sentencing decision despite off-the-record conversations between the...

In Commonwealthv.Polizzotti, a Superior Court Judge ruled that the use of a single booking photograph for identification by police officers shortly after the incident was justified under the...

In Commonwealth v. Grady, 474 Mass. 715 (2016), the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a defendant’s objection at the motion in limine stage preserves appellate rights, eliminating the...

In Commonwealthv. Gordon, 87 Mass. App. Ct. 322 (2015), the Appeals Court ruled that the warrantless entry into the defendant’s apartment was justified under the emergency aid exception,...

In Commonwealth v.Santiago, 470 Mass. 574 (2015), Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rejected an opportunity to embrace the theory of “target standing.” The target standing theory would have allowed...