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"Ruling on drug cases may spur appeals; Hundreds could seek new trial, early release"

"Ruling on drug cases may spur appeals; Hundreds could seek new trial, early release": The Boston Globe today contains an article that begins, "Hundreds of drug cases could be appealed and some convicted drug dealers could win early release because of a ruling by the state's highest court yesterday that retroactively applies a new constitutional principle to drug trials held from 2005 to 2009, lawyers said. In a closely-watched, 6-to-1 decision, the Supreme Judicial Court moved to clear up confusion created last year when the US Supreme Court ruled that Massachusetts routinely violated the rights of defendants in drug trials by not having a chemist testify in person that a seized substance was in fact an illegal drug."

You can access yesterday's ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 27, 2010 (boomark / email).