Written statement of delivery is not a mandatory prerequisite for forming a valid fine art consignment under Massachusetts law; consignment arises from delivery, acceptance, and sale-on-commission agreement alone.
Whether assignment of mortgage carries surety claim when both obligor and surety breached before assignment and surety was liquidated.
Electric utilities challenged storm-response penalties. The court held the DPU correctly applied a reasonableness standard rather than industry-based prudence, vacated penalties unsupported by substantial evidence on specific days, and affirmed the remainder.
Defendant's invocation of right to counsel violated by police persuasion that she was losing her opportunity to tell her story. Murder and attempted murder convictions vacated; arson conviction affirmed.
Defendant convicted of murder appealed denial of speedy trial motion filed 614 days after arraignment. Affirmed. Defendant acquiesced in delays by agreeing to continuances and failed to press discovery remedies.
Illegal sentence may acquire finality barring later correction. GPS monitoring omitted from child pornography sentence became final after sixty-day Rule 29(a) deadline expired; adding it nearly one year later violated double jeopardy.
GPS monitoring mandatory for probationers convicted of child sexual abuse offenses; due process challenge rejected under rational basis test; Fourth Amendment claim not reached.
Murder conviction affirmed where identification through videotape and photographic array was not unnecessarily suggestive, prior bad acts evidence properly limited to state of mind, and surveillance footage inconsistencies were for jury.
Murder conviction affirmed despite newly discovered third-party culprit evidence from alleged confession, because the evidence did not create substantial risk jury would reach different verdict.
Department of Public Utilities lacked jurisdiction to issue municipal street license for amphibious sightseeing vehicles; Boston police commissioner has exclusive authority under special statute.
