Suffolk University Law School, in cooperation with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, maintains this site in order to make oral arguments before the Supreme Judicial Court accessible to the general public.
Next Oral Arguments will be live streamed starting at 9am on January 6th.
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Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of a conviction for carrying a firearm without a license, including whether the defendant can be retried after a Supreme Judicial Court decision setting forth the Commonwealth's obligation to prove that a defendant lacked a license.
Summary: Criminal; Double Jeopardy-- Where a defendant's conviction for carrying a firearm without a license was vacated and a new trial ordered after a Supreme Judicial Court decision regarding the Commonwealth's obligation to prove that a defendant lacked a license, whether a retrial would violate double jeopardy.
Summary: Search and Seizure-- In a drug prosecution, the defendant is appealing the denial of a motion to suppress evidence claiming that the stop of his automobile was motivated in part by race.
Summary: Care and Protection; Impoundment-- Whether a media company is entitled to relief from an order of impoundment of audio recordings of proceedings in a high-profile care and protection case in the Juvenile Court.
Summary: Criminal-- The Commonwealth is appealing the dismissal of indictments charging attempted human trafficking where the defendants responded to an online advertisement for sexual services posted by undercover police officers.
Summary: Criminal-- In a prosecution for sexual abuse of a minor in which the defendant was ordered to produce a DNA sample, whether it was proper for the supervisor of the chemist who conducted the DNA testing to testify.
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Summary: Criminal-- Among other issues, whether the defendant can be convicted of both involuntary manslaughter and operating a motor vehicle to endanger based on the same criminal act.
Summary: Postjudgment Interest-- Where the plaintiff recovered a judgment in excess of $20 million and the defendant paid the judgment in full while preserving its right to appeal, whether postjudgment interest terminates.
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Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.
Summary: Criminal-- Various issues arising out of murder conviction.
Video for this month has not been posted.
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