Supreme Judicial Court affirms involuntary manslaughter conviction in infant death, holding expert testimony that injuries were consistent with abusive head trauma admissible when properly limited.
SJC affirms denial of superintendence petition seeking missing audio recordings from a sealed 2010 criminal case, holding petitioner must exhaust remedies in the Boston Municipal Court first.
The Appeals Court held that 2016 policy language barring duplicate MedPay recovery for expenses already paid by health insurance does not conflict with state law requiring insurers to offer such coverage.
The SJC affirmed a felony-murder conviction based on joint-venture liability, holding that circumstantial evidence supported findings of a planned armed robbery and shared intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm.
The SJC held that a defendant who pursued a normal appeal cannot use a c. 211, § 3 petition to relitigate the same issues, even if the appeal was unsuccessful.
The SJC reversed a ruling that Nahant acted in bad faith when seeking conservation easements over Northeastern University land, holding that conservation is a valid public purpose even when a taking prevents private development.
Supreme Judicial Court affirms denial of extraordinary relief petition where husband failed to pursue timely appeals of abuse prevention and divorce orders through ordinary appellate channels.
The Appeals Court vacated Frederick Pinney's involuntary manslaughter conviction after substitute DNA analysts testified based on reports from a nontestifying analyst, violating his Sixth Amendment confrontation rights under the recent Gordon decision.
The SJC held that police corruption in the John Mulligan murder investigation did not taint a defendant's guilty pleas to separate murders, despite intersecting investigations and shared detectives, because the defendant failed to establish a nexus between the proven misconduct and his own case.
The Appeals Court holds that the summary process statute authorizes successive eviction actions even after an earlier judgment, overriding claim preclusion but leaving issue preclusion intact to prevent relitigation of decided questions.
