By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | 30 Years Massachusetts Criminal Defense Criminal defense in the BMC Dorchester Division The Dorchester Division of the Boston Municipal Court sits at 510 Washington Street and hears cases from most of Dorchester, the largest and most densely populated neighborhood in the city. Its clerk’s office…
Continue reading ›By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | 30 Years Massachusetts Criminal Defense The BMC Brighton Division serves Brighton and Allston, which is another way of saying it serves the student capital of New England. Boston University’s campus runs down Commonwealth Avenue into Allston, Boston College sits at the Brighton-Newton line on the…
Continue reading ›By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | 30 Years Massachusetts Criminal Defense The BMC South Boston Division serves South Boston, a district that now spans two economies at once. The old neighborhood still sends the division the cases it always has, while the Seaport supplies a steady stream of matters from a…
Continue reading ›By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | 30 Years Massachusetts Criminal Defense The BMC Roxbury Division serves Roxbury, and it takes in the Fenway and Kenmore area, and it carries one of the heaviest dockets in the Boston Municipal Court system. Volume shapes everything about how cases move here. A defense that…
Continue reading ›By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | 30 Years Massachusetts Criminal Defense Criminal defense in the Charlestown Division of the Boston Municipal Court The BMC Charlestown Division serves one neighborhood, Charlestown, from a courthouse in the shadow of the Bunker Hill Monument, and its small scale is its defining feature. Cases get…
Continue reading ›By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | 30 Years Massachusetts Criminal Defense Criminal defense in the BMC East Boston Division The BMC East Boston Division serves East Boston and Winthrop, and it hears one docket that no other courthouse in Massachusetts shares, the cases that arise at Logan Airport. That combination gives…
Continue reading ›By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | 30 Years Massachusetts Criminal Defense The BMC West Roxbury Division serves West Roxbury, Roslindale, and Hyde Park, the residential southwest of the city, and its docket looks like the neighborhoods it serves, domestic cases from family homes, motor vehicle cases from the parkways, and working…
Continue reading ›By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | 30 Years Massachusetts Criminal Defense BMC Central is the flagship division of the Boston Municipal Court, and its jurisdiction reads like a tour of downtown. The division serves Downtown Boston, Downtown Crossing, Chinatown, the North End, the West End, Beacon Hill, and the South End…
Continue reading ›By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | 30 Years Massachusetts Criminal Defense Brookline District Court at 360 Washington Street in Brookline Village is the only Massachusetts district court whose entire jurisdiction is a single town, and that concentration produces the most distinctive docket in Norfolk County. The courthouse sits a short walk…
Continue reading ›By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | 30 Years Massachusetts Criminal Defense Woburn District Court at 30 Pleasant Street covers seven Middlesex towns, Woburn, Burlington, Winchester, Wilmington, Stoneham, Reading, and North Reading, and sits beside one of the most consequential pieces of asphalt in Massachusetts criminal practice, the junction of I-93 and…
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