The Massachusetts Appeals Court today ruled a defendant who was linked to a crime by data compiled by the GPS bracelet he was wearing had no expectation of privacy in his location because he voluntarily wore the bracelet as a condition of his release in an earlier criminal case.  The name of the case...

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today affirmed the convictions against a defendant who was arrested after police received information about his criminal activities from an unlikely source - his wife.  The name of the case is Commonwealth v. Abdul-Alim.  (more…)

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a superior court judge's order suppressing drugs that were seized by Watertown police officers who entered an apartment, without a warrant, because it "smelled like drugs."  The name of the case is Commonwealth v. Tuschall.  (more…)

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today affirmed the murder convictions against two men who robbed and shot to death a drug dealer in a Fall River housing complex.  The name of the case is Commonwealth v. Mendez.  (more…)

Attorney Chris Spring successfully argued that the drugs seized from his client's Billerica home by police officers who were executing a search warrant should be suppressed because the warrant application did not establish probable cause that contraband would be found in the defendant's bedroom.  (more…)