I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter is a two-part documentary centered around a teenage couple. Conrad, the boyfriend, dies, leading to suspicion falling on his girlfriend, ...

Trial court erred in granting new trial based on weight of the evidence challenge where it based its ruling solely on one commonwealth expert witness's testimony and substituted its credibility ...

On April 1, 2025, the First Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a nearly $95 million judgment against our client Commonwealth Financial Network related to the sufficiency of Commonwealth’s ...

The fact that a vehicle was registered to someone else was insufficient alone to sustain the Commonwealth's burden to prove a lack of a reasonable expectation of privacy in the vehicle. Order of the ...

As Plymouth County District Attorney, and a former longtime member of the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance Board, my office speaks for crime victims in Plymouth County. Sadly, today ...

In this amicus brief, the ACLU and its coalition partners urged robust application of the legal standard governing the admissibility of expert testimony and technical evidence, especially in cases ...

This case asks whether the stop, search, and arrest of an individual after a traffic stop was unconstitutional under the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. The case arises from a remarkable set of ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited ruling in Commonwealth v. Kurtz today, on whether there are Fourth Amendment rights in Google search terms. Among the seven Justices, three ...

From two interesting (and little-known) 1840s American cases that point in somewhat different directions. [1.] In Commonwealth v. Armstrong, 1 Pa. L.J. Rep. 146 (Ct. Quarter Sess. Lycoming County 1842 ...