Sex offender failed to register with the registry board, providing false residence information. Court held CPSL mandatory upon conviction and complaint amendment proper despite defendant's ineffective assistance claim.
Officers searched an automobile without warrant after driver's arrest for operating without valid license. Court affirmed suppression of firearm and drugs.
Prisoner entitled to credit for time served on vacated conviction against unrelated later sentence, absent banking concerns or double counting.
Affirmed murder conviction and assault conviction; vacated duplicative armed burglary conviction. Provocation does not mitigate felony-murder; killing occurring minutes after entry qualifies as felony-murder.
Defendant convicted of child sexual exploitation via Xbox gaming console video chat. Supreme Judicial Court affirmed, holding that transmitted masturbation constitutes a "performance" before a person under statute.
Defendant charged with involuntary manslaughter claimed self-defense. Trial judge initially ruled evidence of victim's prior violent conduct admissible, then reversed course during trial. Conviction vacated; new trial ordered.
Court vacates sexual assault conviction due to exclusion of prior inconsistent statements; reverses conviction for giving alcohol to defendant's own daughter; affirms furnishing alcohol to victim conviction.
Crime victim lacks standing to challenge probation conditions requiring biological father to support child resulting from statutory rape. Family court matters subject to ordinary appeal.
GPS warrant supported by probable cause; passenger has standing to challenge surveillance; probation condition limiting computer access unconstitutionally broad; convictions affirmed with probation modification.
Murder conviction affirmed where three attacks on family members were properly joined for trial and ammunition seized from defendant's apartment was admissible under inevitable discovery.
