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Greater Boston Criminal Law Alerts
Cross-Examining an Absent Accuser: Excited Utterances, Spontaneous Utterances, and Section 806 in a Massachusetts Domestic Violence Trial Some of the hardest fought Massachusetts domestic violence cases I try are the ones where the accuser never takes the stand. The person who called 911 recants, refuses to appear, or has reconciled and wants the case gone. The Commonwealth does not always drop those cases. It tries to prove them through the recording and…
Commonwealth v. Arias: The SJC’s New Limit on Delayed Traffic Stops On April 15, 2026, the Supreme Judicial Court decided Commonwealth v. Arias, SJC-13816, and gave Massachusetts a rule it did not have before: when police stop a car for a traffic violation they observed earlier, the elapsed time between the violation and the stop must be reasonable, and the Commonwealth bears the burden of proving…
Marijuana OUI in Massachusetts as Social Consumption Begins Massachusetts approved cannabis lounges, and the first ones are preparing to open. On December 11, 2025, the Cannabis Control Commission adopted final social consumption regulations, and they took effect on January 2, 2026. Municipalities are deciding whether to opt in, licensees are building out sites, and at some point this year a driver will leave…
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