Feb 18, 2014 | Archives, Online Edition
In Commonwealth v. Winfield,[ref]985 N.E.2d 86 (Mass. 2013).[/ref] the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), in a matter of first impression, held that the First Amendment right of access to a criminal trial—as applied to the states through the Fourteenth...
Feb 7, 2014 | Archives, Online Edition
In United States v. Wurie,[ref]728 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2013), cert. granted, 2013 WL 4402108 (U.S. Jan. 17, 2014) (No. 13-212).[/ref] a police officer, while performing routine surveillance, observed what he believed was an illegal drug transaction between Fred Wade and...