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Can a Massachusetts Judge Just Dismiss My Case? What Most Defendants Get Wrong

A dismissal on the first day of a case is the outcome every defendant hopes for, and it is also the source of the single most common misunderstanding in Massachusetts criminal practice. Most people believe that a judge can look at a weak or sympathetic case, decide it is not worth pursuing, and simply throw…

BMC Brighton: Fake IDs, Student Cases, and the Allston-Brighton Docket

The BMC Brighton Division serves Brighton and Allston, which is another way of saying it serves the student capital of New England. Boston University’s campus runs down Commonwealth Avenue into Allston, Boston College sits at the Brighton-Newton line on the neighborhood’s western edge, and the blocks between them hold more undergraduates, graduate students, and twenty-somethings…

BMC South Boston: The Seaport Docket Meets the Old Neighborhood

The BMC South Boston Division serves South Boston and part of Dorchester, and that combination now covers two economies at once. The old neighborhood still sends the division the cases it always has, while the Seaport supplies a steady stream of matters from a district that barely existed a generation ago. The docket has changed…