May 22, 2014 | Archives, Online Edition
In Verizon v. FCC,[ref]740 F.3d 623 (D.C. Cir. 2014).[/ref] the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, for the second time in four years, reviewed the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) authority to impose “net neutrality” rules on...
May 19, 2014 | Archives, Online Edition
The right for a person to be free in his or her body, effects, and property from governmental intrusion serves as the bedrock of the Bill of Rights, as well as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s Declaration of Rights.[ref]See U.S. Const. amend. IV (Fourth...
May 12, 2014 | Archives, Online Edition
I. Introduction Police officer testimony during OUI (operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol) trials in Massachusetts often reads like a script from an all too familiar play, with indicators of alcohol intoxication largely the same across...
Apr 20, 2014 | Archives, Online Edition
Ernest Willis was convicted of various sexual assault offenses that occurred in 1997.[ref]See State v. Willis, 75 A.3d 1068, 1070 (N.H. 2013); N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§ 632-A:2 to :3 (2014) (defining aggravated felonious sexual assault and felonious sexual...
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...