Federal disability payments and property tax abatements for disabled veterans, not contingent on financial need, do not qualify a litigant as "indigent" under Massachusetts's fee-waiver statute.
Conviction reversed where trial court admitted evidence of defendant's prior acquittal on unrelated sexual assault charge. Massachusetts Constitution bars such evidence in subsequent criminal prosecutions.
Construction management at risk contracts include an implied warranty of design sufficiency, but the CMAR's recovery is limited to reasonable reliance on defects.
City ordinance prohibiting sex offenders from living near schools or parks violated Home Rule Amendment as inconsistent with comprehensive state regulatory scheme.
Prospective application of a law expanding juvenile jurisdiction to seventeen-year-olds does not violate equal protection when the law excludes defendants whose criminal proceedings commenced before the law's effective date.
Defendant found not guilty by reason of mental illness may appeal under G.L. c. 278, § 28. Evidence sufficient to support conviction of second-degree murder.
Sex offender classification made over three years before release from confinement is presumptively stale and must be reconsidered at time closer to actual community reentry.
Sex offender's final classification must reflect current risk at time of actual discharge, not earliest possible release date. Classification years in advance based on stale evidence violates due process.
Police threats concerning defendant's infant daughter made his custodial statements involuntary. Admission of videotaped confession at trial violated due process and was not harmless error.
Court holds defendant's cell site location information warrant required showing of probable cause under state constitution; affidavit supported probable cause in murder and arson investigation.
