Town acquired prescriptive easement over private roadway and adjacent land through more than twenty years of continuous public use and municipal maintenance.
Partial payment rule applies to six-year statute of limitations for promissory notes under UCC; payment resets limitations period.
Single justice's denial of leave to appeal from post-conviction motion is final and unreviewable; no appeal to full court lies.
Parole board certiorari case; discovery disputes and mootness concerns adequately addressed on appeal from final judgment.
Attorney indicted on rape charges sought to disqualify prosecutor based on prior working relationship. Supreme Judicial Court affirmed denial, finding issue properly reviewable on appeal from conviction.
Defendant indicted on videotaping charges sought dismissal arguing duplicative counts violated double jeopardy. Affirmed; review of motion to dismiss unavailable pretrial except for substantial double jeopardy claims.
Affirmed. Defense counsel's failure to disclose judge's familial relationship with prosecutor's office was inadequate performance but caused no prejudice given defendant's prior valid concerns about local jury bias.
Murder conviction affirmed where defendant's statements to police were voluntary despite initial request for confidentiality, because Miranda warnings and explicit police statements about use made confidentiality assurance moot.
Board of Health properly revoked motel license based on disproportionate criminal activity and public nuisance, notwithstanding operator's prior compliance efforts.
Court denies District Attorney's motion for reconsideration of denial of summary judgment in property seizure case; laches defense fails and statute permits return of seized property to non-defendant owner.
