Contribution claims barred when settlement with Commonwealth did not release joint tortfeasors. Other tort claims survive dismissal despite statute of limitations concerns.
Juvenile adjudicated as youthful offender and delinquent for sexual assault. Court vacates mandatory sex offender registration and GPS monitoring requirements.
Fingerprint evidence alone insufficient to support breaking and entering and larceny convictions when Commonwealth failed to prove fingerprint was placed during the crime.
Disorderly conduct conviction reversed where defendant's resistant behavior in hospital psychiatric emergency room posed no proven risk of public disturbance outside his confined space.
Supreme Judicial Court addresses consequences of failing to follow eyewitness identification protocol and whether police violated due process in showing single firearm photograph.
Murder conviction affirmed where expert testimony about defendant's goal-directed behavior and prosecutor's closing argument were properly admitted.
Juvenile indicted for murder and related nonmurder offenses must be prosecuted entirely in Superior Court; nonmurder charges need not first proceed in Juvenile Court.
Child pornography convictions affirmed where police obtained evidence through corroborated IP address investigation and file-sharing program surveillance. Lascivious intent required for all child pornography statute violations.
Search warrant for apartment valid where police traced child pornography transmission through specific IP address to that residence via ISP subpoena, despite uncertainty about account holder's residency.
Reversed dismissal of sexually dangerous person petition; judge improperly rejected expert evidence at probable cause hearing.
