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United States And Massachusetts Supreme Courts Agree, Drug/Gun Cases Are Overturned And Prosecuting Attorneys Are Worried

By Altman & Altman

The Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog has often warned you that you want to have an experienced criminal defense attorney advise and, if necessary, defend you if you find yourself to be a target or a criminal defendant. I have given you many reasons for this. Today?s story reveals one more. Sometimes, the law, as applied by the courts, is wrong. This is the stuff about which appeals are made. So, in short, you want to have an attorney who not only knows what the law is...but what it should be. Our case in point is a recent group of rulings by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. In the rulings, at least eight Plymouth County cases were overturned pursuant to the United States. Supreme Court ruling last summer that it wasn?t enough to use lab analysis paperwork as evidence ? the chemists and ballistics experts (in gun cases) who did the tests have to testify, too...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on March 29, 2010 (boomark / email).