Update: In recent news, Avery’s attorneys have submitted a number of appeals documents. Several of these have been denied, however it appears one or more of these are still winding their ways up through the Appeals Courts. Brandan Dassey, however, may have...
If you follow our blogs or the local news, you may have read about an issue involving the breathalyzers used in Massachusetts for the detection of alcohol. The Draeger Alcotest 9510 is being challenged by defense attorneys, alleging that the results may be inaccurate...
Asking for an attorney, whether you have committed a crime or not, is not only smart – it’s YOUR right. In spite of news media or the way TV portrays our legal justice system, the right to counsel is one of the most fundamental parts of our justice... The Aaron Hernandez case has been in the news for well over a year and has sounded like a story right out of a novel. Here we have a football star, at the height of his career, who’s living out his dream of playing for the best team in America (no football arguments...
The Supreme Judicial Court Wednesday, in the case of Commonwealth v. Craan, said that due to small amounts of marijuana being decriminalized in 2008, police may no longer rely on the smell of (unburnt) pot to justify stop of a person or a search of a person’s car. In... 