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Appeals Court Upholds Stalking Convictions and Sentence Reduction in Decade-Long Harassment Case: Commonwealth v. Hayes (AC 25-P-347 & 25-P-607, September 24, 2026)
Appeals Court affirmed stalking and witness intimidation convictions in an eleven-year harassment case, holding police searches of electronic devices fell within warrant scope and that a swastika-marked photo mailed to a witness constituted a true threat.
Latest Opinions
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Commonwealth v. Hayes (AC-25-P-347-&-25-P-607, September 24, 2026)
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Commonwealth v. Khadgi (AC-25-P-1208, September 24, 2026)
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Commonwealth v. Williams (SJC-12702, September 22, 2026)
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Commonwealth v. Beechman (AC-25-P-1082, September 21, 2026)
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Marshfield v. Commonwealth (SJC-13840, September 18, 2026)
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Commonwealth v. Goulart (AC-25-P-396, September 18, 2026)
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Liz L. v. Ursel U (AC-25-P-281, September 15, 2026)
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AIF Dartmouth, LLC v. Hanson (AC-24-P-961-&-25-P-341, September 14, 2026)
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Holick v. Boston Medical Center (AC-25-P-860, September 11, 2026)
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Care and Protection of Prince (AC-25-P-1124, September 11, 2026)
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Monsieur Touton Selection of Massachusetts, Ltd. v. Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (AC-25-P-304, September 10, 2026)
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Main Street Mortgage Group, Corp. v. Tran (AC-25-P-568, September 10, 2026)
Case Briefs
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Appeals Court Upholds Stalking Convictions and Sentence Reduction in Decade-Long Harassment Case: Commonwealth v. Hayes (AC 25-P-347 & 25-P-607, September 24, 2026)
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Appeals Court Applies Mendes to Confrontation Claim: Commonwealth v. Khadgi (AC 25-P-1208, Sept. 24, 2026)
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SJC Reverses Murder Conviction After Unreliable Gunshot Residue Evidence Admitted at Trial: Commonwealth v. Williams (SJC-12702, September 22, 2026)
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Divided Appeals Court Affirms Suppression of Gun Found in Inventory Search: Commonwealth v. Beechman (AC 25-P-1082, September 21, 2026)
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SJC Upholds MBTA Communities Act Against Home Rule Challenge: Marshfield v. Commonwealth (SJC-13840, September 18, 2026)
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Supreme Judicial Court
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Commonwealth v. Williams (SJC-12702, September 22, 2026)
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Marshfield v. Commonwealth (SJC-13840, September 18, 2026)
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Commonwealth v. Shu Feng Hsu (SJC-13855, September 9, 2026)
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Appeals Court
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Commonwealth v. Hayes (AC-25-P-347-&-25-P-607, September 24, 2026)
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Commonwealth v. Khadgi (AC-25-P-1208, September 24, 2026)
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Commonwealth v. Beechman (AC-25-P-1082, September 21, 2026)
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Commonwealth v. Goulart (AC-25-P-396, September 18, 2026)
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Liz L. v. Ursel U (AC-25-P-281, September 15, 2026)
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AIF Dartmouth, LLC v. Hanson (AC-24-P-961-&-25-P-341, September 14, 2026)
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The Clancy Holdout Juror Says He Will File a Bar Complaint Against Reddington. Here Is What Happens to It.
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The SJC Will Decide Whether Police Chiefs Can Deny Gun Licenses as “Unsuitable.” Question 9 Does Not Settle It.
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Lawrence Mayor DePeña Is Indicted for Distributing Secret Recordings, Not for Making Them. How the Massachusetts Wiretap Law Works.
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Commonwealth v. Guardado Is Still Vacating Massachusetts Gun Convictions. Which Cases It Reaches, and Why Most Get Retried
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Brigham Nurses Voted 93% to Authorize an Open-Ended Strike. What the Law Requires Before They Can Walk Out, and What “Impasse” Means
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Medfield’s Police Chief Is on Paid Leave. What the Town Must Report to the POST Commission, and What the Public Can See
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A Jury Found the Sig Sauer P320 Defective. The Cambridge Officer It Shot Gets Nothing. Here Is Why.
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Two New Bedford Men Asked a Federal Judge to Release Them. Their Lawyers Could Not Find Them in ICE’s Own Locator.
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The Judge Sealed the Clancy Juror Records Indefinitely. That Is Not the Question Reddington Is Asking on September 29.
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Healey’s Ex-Aide Got a Motion Schedule, Not a Trial Date. The Defense Is Moving to Suppress, and Prosecutors Are Summonsing Third-Party Records.
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ICE Detained a U.S. Citizen and Left Him Injured on the Ground. Here Is What the Law Actually Gives Him.
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Three Motions Are Pending in the Clancy Case on September 29. The One That Could End It Is Not the Juror Motion.
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Worcester’s Council Killed the Encampment Ban. Grants Pass Removed the Constitutional Obstacle, Not the Political One.
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