This Judicial Opinion Summary is for the State of Massachusetts for the year 2001. It was compiled, researched, and written by Kenneth J. King..

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Sections:

Introduction

• Probation
• MBTA
• Prior Delinquency Convictions-Enhanced Penalties
• New Trial, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

Schools

• School Threats
• School Records
• School Searches
• Stop & Frisk

Assorted Decisional

• Juvenile Judge, Power to Grant Immunity
• Mistake of Fact, Not a Defense to Rape

Evidence

• Sleep Talk
• Impeachment by Conviction
• Prior Inconsistent Statement Adopted by Declarant Admissible For it's Probative Value
• Competence of Child Witness
• Police Opinion
• Bias, Evidence of Police Brutality
• Use of Defendant's Post Miranda Silence
• Improper Cross Examination of Defendant
• Hearsay, Police Testimony of Results of Registry Check
• Expert

Discovery

• Victim Witness Records
• Loss of Potentially Exculpatory Evidence

Disposition

• CWOF, With Unsupervised Probation and Payment of Money-Not Calculated As Restitution
• Dismissal Over the Objection Of The Commonwealth

Probation

• General
• Required Finding

Jury Issues

• Jurors, Bias and Extraneous Influence
• Specific Unanimity
• Jury Instructions

Misjoinder

*This section is excerpted from work of Kenneth J. King of Suffolk Law University.