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BMC Dorchester: A High-Volume Division, Immigration Stakes, and Firearms Defense
Attorney Joe Serpa

By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | Massachusetts Criminal Defense Since 1995 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…

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BMC Brighton: Fake IDs, Student Cases, and the Allston-Brighton Docket
Attorney Joe Serpa

By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | Massachusetts Criminal Defense Since 1995 The Brighton Division of the Boston Municipal Court handles criminal cases arising in Allston and Brighton, including fake ID complaint applications, student party cases, disorderly conduct allegations, assaults, OUI charges, license offenses, theft cases, and domestic incidents. Many clients are…

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BMC South Boston: The Seaport Docket Meets the Old Neighborhood
Attorney Joe Serpa

By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | Massachusetts Criminal Defense Since 1995 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…

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BMC Roxbury: Defense in One of Boston’s Busiest Courtrooms
Attorney Joe Serpa

By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | Massachusetts Criminal Defense Since 1995 The BMC Roxbury Division serves Roxbury and takes in the Fenway and Kenmore area, which puts Northeastern students, Longwood hospital staff, and Fenway residents on the same morning list as lifelong Roxbury families. It carries one of the heaviest dockets…

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BMC Charlestown: A Small Division Where Preparation Shows
Attorney Joe Serpa

By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | Massachusetts Criminal Defense Since 1995 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…

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BMC East Boston: The Logan Airport Docket and a Neighborhood Court
Attorney Joe Serpa

By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | Massachusetts Criminal Defense Since 1995 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…

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BMC West Roxbury: Domestic Cases, Parkway OUI, and Record Protection
Attorney Joe Serpa

By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | Massachusetts Criminal Defense Since 1995 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…

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BMC Central: Fake IDs, the Nightlife Docket, and Downtown Boston Defense
Attorney Joe Serpa

By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | Massachusetts Criminal Defense Since 1995 The Central Division of the Boston Municipal Court handles criminal cases arising in downtown Boston, including fake ID complaint applications, bar and restaurant incidents, shoplifting allegations, assaults, disorderly conduct, OUI charges, and other cases involving students, professionals, residents, commuters, and…

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Brookline District Court: Defense in Massachusetts’ Only One-Town Court
Attorney Joe Serpa

By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | Massachusetts Criminal Defense Since 1995 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…

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Woburn District Court: Burlington Mall Shoplifting and the Interchange OUI
Attorney Joe Serpa

By Attorney Joe Serpa | Georgetown University Law Center | Massachusetts Criminal Defense Since 1995 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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The Lindsay Clancy Trial: A Cruel and Tone Deaf Prosecution

A prosecutor decides not only what to prove but how to speak about the person sitting at the defense table. In the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Commonwealth told the jury in its opening statement and again in closing that she was a murderer who coldly wanted to see her own children dead. It called…

The Lindsay Clancy Jury Dispute: When Massachusetts Law Permits Removal of a Deliberating Juror

Massachusetts law does not permit a trial judge to remove a deliberating juror merely because the other eleven jurors believe that person is wrong. Once deliberations begin, the judge may discharge a juror only after a hearing establishes an emergency, another compelling reason, or a demonstrated inability to perform the duties of a juror. Disagreement…

Filming Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy Trial and Massachusetts Witness Intimidation Law

An arrest after the alleged filming of jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial raises separate questions under the witness-intimidation, evidence-tampering, contempt, and wiretap laws. This analysis applies each rule without presuming the allegations are true.