Law 360
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins looks back at how Judge Charles Spurlock's trial advocacy class at Northeastern University School of Law challenged her to apply what she had already learned about civil and criminal procedure, evidence and criminal law to solving real-world problems.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
Three female graduate students Tuesday filed a lawsuit in the United Stats District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Harvard, alleging that Harvard mishandled Title IX complaints and allowed Anthropology Professor John L. Comaroff to intimidate students who threatened to report him, including the plaintiffs. .
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JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 20, 2022
Here is the standard jury instruction in Massachusetts for determining if there was a dangerous weapon used in a crime: To prove the third element, the Commonwealth must prove that the touching was done with a dangerous weapon. The assault and battery with a dangerous weapon charges are novel.
The Crime Report
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
In a stunning development today in Massachusetts, a Middlesex County Superior Court judge unsealed records revealing the state concealed information for years that showed other chemists and supervisors may have engaged in wrongdoing at a beleaguered crime lab where rampant misconduct led to tens of thousands of wrongful drug convictions.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
If it had chosen to hear the case, the court could have decided whether it is inherent within the Constitution that criminal defendants are entitled to a trial by a jury of 12 or more members of the community. This deviation from the standard 12-person jury was permitted by the 1970 US Supreme Court ruling in Williams v.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 9, 2024
The FBI has since arrested three other individuals who allegedly trafficked stolen body parts, including Lodge, Lodge’s wife Denise Lodge, Katrina Maclean of Salem, Massachusetts, and Joshua Taylor of Pennsylvania. Cicchetti and Tracey Fay, citing their immunity under Massachusetts’ Universal Anatomical Gift Act.
LLRX
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Arie Perliger , director of the graduate program in Security Studies at the School of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell addresses the fact the the U.S. is currently experiencing one of the most significant waves of antisemitism that it has ever seen. Jewish communities are shaken and traumatized.
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