The hate crime statute requires an assault, a battery or property damage before bias matters at all. The statute that actually reaches this conduct lets the victim sue in her own name and collect her attorney fees.
The constitutional objections at the center of the repeal argument have now been tested in court twice, and the law won both times. One challenge is still live at the SJC.
The repeal campaign has raised twice as much and has almost no more money than the industry does, because it spent $2.2 million collecting signatures. That, and the takings claim the SJC has not decided.
The political story is a $31,000 vacation payout. The legal story is a mandatory minimum of twelve years, and a search of an office cabinet that has not yet been tested at a hearing.
The charge, the Bridgewater evaluation and the bail are three different parts of Massachusetts law doing three different jobs. None of them is what the headline suggests.
He called the motion Looney Tunes and said it would backfire spectacularly. The constitutional argument he reached for belongs to the defendant, not the juror, and the rule that does protect jurors is a different one.
The rape count carries no mandatory minimum. The count next to it carries ten years and a maximum of life. What the three charges against Clavicular actually mean under Massachusetts law.
He has not spoken publicly since 2024, and the vacuum has filled with rumor. The record as it stands, with a date and a source for each item and a plain statement of what is not known.
The inquiry motion is the foundation; the double-jeopardy motion is the building. Why the sealed questionnaire is the whole case, and why the phone records are the one request the law actually allows.
The word is "person." The fact is viability. Why a state with no fetal homicide statute can send a man to prison for the death of a child who was never born.
