Cases

Buckman v. Commissioner of Correction

484 Mass. 14 (2020); (invalidating regulatory scheme for compassionate release as offensive to statute)

Commonwealth v. Dagoberto Sanchez

485 Mass. 491 (2020); (requiring a more favorable standard for reviewing discrimination in jury selection)

Commonwealth v. Watt and another

484 Mass. 742 (2020); (requiring remand  for evidentiary hearing for Court to consider adding constitutional  protections to the sentencing of youth between eighteen and twenty-one)  

Weaver v. Massachusetts

137 S. Ct. 1899(2017); (state post-conviction  counsel, SCOTUS co-counsel, litigating (unsuccessfully) the right to public trial)  

Sanchez v. Roden

 735 F.3d. 279 (2014); (gaining remand on Batson claim, rejecting Massachusetts standard of review of discrimination in jury selection)  

Commonwealth v. Eric Murray

461 Mass. 10 (2011); (prevailing, post conviction, on a claim of withholding exculpatory evidence in gang-related  homicide, reversing first degree murder conviction)  

Commonwealth v. Pasqualino DePace

433 Mass. 379 (2001); (upholding the  right to post-arrest silence, reversing first degree murder conviction)  

Commonwealth v. William Lapage

435 Mass. 480 (2001); (upholding the right to proof beyond a reasonable doubt, reversing first degree murder conviction)