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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Explains Procedures of G. L. c. 278A and Rules That a Claim of Self-Defense Is a Claim of Factual Innocence
Article • August 21, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Explains Procedures of G. L. c. 278A and Rules That a Claim of Self-Defense Is a Claim of Factual Innocence by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts explained the procedures for filing and adjudicating a motion brought under G. L. c. …
Massachusetts Supreme Court Holds Statute Requiring GPS Monitoring of Probationers Convicted of Sex Offenses Unconstitutional ‘as Applied’
Article • August 19, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Electronic Monitoring
Massachusetts Supreme Court Holds Statute Requiring GPS Monitoring of Probationers Convicted of Sex Offenses Unconstitutional ‘as Applied’ by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that Massachusetts General Law, chapter 265, § 47 (“G.L. c. 265, § 47”), is overinclusive and is unconstitutional as applied …
Massachusetts Supreme Court: Discharge From Civil Commitment 
Required When Examiners Conclude Defendant Is Not Sexually Dangerous
Article • July 17, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Sex Offender Treatment, Civil Commitment
Massachusetts Supreme Court: Discharge From Civil Commitment Required When Examiners Conclude Defendant Is Not Sexually Dangerous by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Following convictions for two counts of rape of a child in 1977, Wayne Chapman was sentenced to prison for a term of 15 to 30 years. But later …
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Consent to Search Does Not Attenuate Seized Evidence From Taint of Illegal Search of CSLI
Article • July 16, 2019 • from CLN August, 2019
Filed under: Searches, Police Searches
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Consent to Search Does Not Attenuate Seized Evidence From Taint of Illegal Search of CSLI by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts suppressed illegally obtained CSLI, ruling that the Commonwealth failed to meet its burden under the Fourth Amendment of proving …
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Announces in Case of First Impression That Police Causing Cellphone to Reveal Its Real Time Location Is a Search Under State Constitution
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Filed under: Telephones
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Announces in Case of First Impression That Police Causing Cellphone to Reveal Its Real Time Location Is a Search Under State Constitution by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a case of first impression, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that when police take action …
The Sentencing Project, Campaign to End Life Imprisonment - Women and Girls Serving Life Sentences, 2019
Publication • June 1, 2019
Filed under: Sexual Assault, Statistics/Trends, Parole, Mental Health, Suicides, Juveniles
The Sentencing Project, Campaign to End Life Imprisonment - Women and Girls Serving Life Sentences, 2019 CAMPAIGN TO END LIFE IMPRISONMENT WOMEN AND GIRLS SERVING LIFE SENTENCES Nationwide one of every 15 women in prison — nearly 7,000 women — is serving a life or virtual life sentence.1 One-third of …
Federal Judge Rules Massachusetts Law Banning Secretly Recording Police in Public Is Unconstitutional
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Filed under: Police, First Amendment, rights
Federal Judge Rules Massachusetts Law Banning Secretly Recording Police in Public Is Unconstitutional by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that secretly recording the police in public is protected by the First Amendment and that a Massachusetts law forbidding such activity …
Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal: Thousands More Cases Likely Affected
Article • February 15, 2019 • from CLN March, 2019
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Crime Labs
Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal: Thousands More Cases Likely Affected by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has dismissed about 45,000 charges in more than 30,000 drug cases prosecuted in the state due to misconduct by chemists Sonja Farak of Amherst drug lab and Annie Dookhan of Hinton …
Massachusetts DOC commissions 2017
Kickback publication • January 28, 2019
Filed under: Telephones
Massachusetts DOC commissions 2017 <The Commonwea(th of'M.assachusetts <F,xJcutive Office of<Pu6uc Safety e1, Security CHARLES D. BAKER Governor <Department of Correction 50 :Map{e Street, Suite 3 :Milforc{, :M}l 01757 <Te{: (508)422-3300 www.mass.gov/aoc CAROL A. MIC! Acting Co1n1nissioner JOHN A. O'MALLEY Chief of Staff KARYN E. POLITO Lieutenant Gauernor THOMAS A. TURCO, …
Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal: Thousands More Cases Likely Affected
Article • January 19, 2019 • from CLN February, 2019
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Crime Labs
Massachusetts Drug Lab Scandal: Thousands More Cases Likely Affected by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has dismissed about 45,000 charges in more than 30,000 drug cases prosecuted in the state due to misconduct by chemists Sonja Farak of Amherst drug lab and Annie Dookhan of Hinton …
Massachusetts Supreme Court Shifts Burden on Government to Prove by Clear and Convincing Evidence Sex Offender Poses Continued Risk at Termination of Registry Hearings
Article • December 29, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Filed under: Sex Offender Registration
Massachusetts Supreme Court Shifts Burden on Government to Prove by Clear and Convincing Evidence Sex Offender Poses Continued Risk at Termination of Registry Hearings by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held that when a sex offender required to register requests to be reclassified at …
Massachusetts Supreme Court Overturns Conviction Based on Prosecutor’s False Statement During Closing Argument
Article • December 28, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Filed under: Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct
Massachusetts Supreme Court Overturns Conviction Based on Prosecutor’s False Statement During Closing Argument by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A prosecutor&rsquo;s false statements in her closing argument in an attempt to corroborate a witness&rsquo; testimony was fatal to her case, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held, vacating the convictions …
Massachusetts Supreme Court Tosses Thousands of Drug Cases After Lab Tech Scandal and Government Cover-Up
Article • December 28, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Filed under: Government Misconduct, Drug Testing, Crime Labs
Massachusetts Supreme Court Tosses Thousands of Drug Cases After Lab Tech Scandal and Government Cover-Up by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts reached a decision in the Amherst lab scandal, where disgraced lab technician Sonja Farak tampered with and stole drugs from thousands of drug …
Massachusetts DOC - Securus rates 2018-2023
Kickback publication • December 20, 2018
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates
Massachusetts DOC - Securus rates 2018-2023 Dennis J. Reinhold Senior Vice President and General Counsel March 1, 2018 Via Email ' Nilsa Morales Director of Fiscal Affairs Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security 1 Ashburton Place - Room 213 3 Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Re: Securus Technologies Dear Ms. …
Massachusetts DOC - Securus contract 2018-2023
Kickback publication • December 20, 2018
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Monitoring
Massachusetts DOC - Securus contract 2018-2023 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS - STANDARD CONTRACT FORM This form is jointly issued and published by the Executive Office for Administration and Finance (ANFl. the Office of the Comptroller (CTR) and the Operational Services Division (OSD) as the default contract for all Commonwealth Departments when …
Massachusetts Supreme Court Holds Seven-Year Delay and Inability to Receive Sex Offender Treatment While Awaiting SDP Trial Violates Due Process
Article • October 31, 2018 • from CLN November, 2018
Filed under: Sex Offenders (Discrimination), Overdetention, Sex Offender Treatment, Civil Commitment
Massachusetts Supreme Court Holds Seven-Year Delay and Inability to Receive Sex Offender Treatment While Awaiting SDP Trial Violates Due Process by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell &ldquo;While substantive due process permits limited confinement after a probable cause determination, it does not permit the Commonwealth to hold an individual indefinitely while …
Suburban Boston Town Backpedals on Steep Police Official Raises
Article • August 1, 2018
Filed under: Police
Suburban Boston Town Backpedals on Steep Police Official Raises by Derek Gilna Methuen, Massachusetts, a modest town of 50,000 people near Boston, has backpedaled on a contract formula that would have paid police captains over $432,000, making them the highest-paid police officers in the states, and more than twice as …
Study: Racism and Over-incarceration Pervade Juvenile Detention
Article • May 24, 2018
Filed under: Juveniles, Juvenile Prisons
Study: Racism and Over-incarceration Pervade Juvenile Detention by A 2018 study has uncovered a&nbsp;troubling racial-disparity gap in youth confinement. &ldquo;Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie&rdquo; was published Feb. 27, 2018, by the Prison Policy Initiative, a Massachusetts-based nonpartisan nonprofit. The study analyzed data gathered in the 2015 Census of Juveniles in …
‘Serious Bodily Harm’ Does Not Include Animals, Massachusetts Supreme Court Holds
Article • May 22, 2018 • from CLN June, 2018
Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Juveniles, State Statutes
‘Serious Bodily Harm’ Does Not Include Animals, Massachusetts Supreme Court Holds by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The term &ldquo;serious bodily harm&rdquo; does not include harm to animals, unless the statute expressly says so, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts held, tossing out a youthful offender indictment. After a 14-year-old …
Pearson et. al. v. Hodgson and Securus Technologies Inc., phone kickback scheme complaint, 2018
Brief • May 2, 2018
Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Rates, Attorney Calls, Mental Health, Family
Pearson et. al. v. Hodgson and Securus Technologies Inc., phone kickback scheme complaint, 2018 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUFFOLK, ss. SUFFOLK SUPERIOR COURT TRIAL COURT DEPARTMENT BUSINESS LAW SECTION DOCKET NO: ) KELLIE PEARSON, ROGER BURRELL, ) BRIAN GIVENS, and THE LAW ) OFFICES OF MARK BOOKER, on ) behalf of …
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