Posted on September 7, 2014 in
When a criminal defendant elects to have a jury trial, there is an expectation that the jurors will be attentive during the trial. But what happens when one of the jurors appears to sleep through the evidence? The Appeals Court considered the issue this week in Commonwealth v. Luis Gonzalez. During the deliberations, the...
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Posted on June 23, 2014 in
On June 18, 2014, the Supreme Judicial Court clarified the scope of the “one-party consent exception” to the state wiretap law (chapter 272, section 99). In Massachusetts it is illegal to secretly record an oral communication unless all parties to the conversation consent. However, the one-party consent exception allows a law enforcement officer, or...
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