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Stay current with all the latest and breaking news from Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. Compare headlines and media bias behind news outlets on stories breaking today. We’ve aggregated 37 of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s headlines and news stories over the past 3 months.

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Karen Read says in interview that murder case left her in 'purgatory'

71% Center coverage: 7 sources

BOSTON (AP) — Karen Read’s months-long murder case left her in “purgatory” and ”stressed every day,” she said in an interview set to air Friday night. Read, 44, is accused of ramming into her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a January 2022 snowstorm. Her two-month trial ended in July when jurors declared they were hopelessly deadlocked and a judge declared a mistrial on the fifth day of delibe…See the Story

O’Brien plans to appeal firing to the SJC

34% Center coverage: 3 sources

Shannon O'Brien plans to appeal her firing as the chairwoman of the Cannabis Control Commission directly to the Supreme Judicial Court, her lawyer said Tuesday, and one of her former CCC colleagues will take over as acting chair in the meantime.See the Story

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Karen Read asks Massachusetts Supreme Court to dismiss two charges

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Read, 44, is accused of ramming into her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him for dead during a January 2022 snowstorm.See the Story

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Bar sees balance in SJC’s ruling in 7-Eleven case

Lawyers say the Supreme Judicial Court’s latest response to a certified question from the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Patel, et al. v. 7-Eleven, Inc., et al. helpfully clarifies how a “threshold determination” should be assessed when franchisees claim they have been misclassified as independent contractors under G.L.c. 149, §148B.See the Story

BC Law professor brings sense of authenticity to inaugural legal thriller

In deciding to write his first novel, Boston College Law School Professor R. Robert Cassidy made a promise to himself that he would address a shortcoming he often comes across in the genre.See the Story

Racism

Gov’s Councilor Devaney says she’s leaving with head held high

Helping to combat systemic racism in the justice system is just one of the reasons Marilyn Petitto Devaney, 85, says she can hold her head high as her quarter century of service on the Governor’s Council winds to a close.See the Story

Woman’s fatal stroke blamed on inadequate anticoagulation

The plaintiff’s decedent was 57 when she died in October 2014, three days after she suffered a stroke. She left a husband and two adult children.See the Story

Massachusetts · Massachusetts

Man, 79, not notified of slightly abnormal PSA result

The case involved a 79-year-old male who had a slightly abnormal PSA test result in 2017. He was not notified of the result.See the Story

The law as a force for change

The law looks at each case individually, as it should. But sometimes the law, and all those involved in it, can and should be a force for change.See the Story

Civil rights – Qualified immunity

Where (1) a plaintiff who was previously incarcerated filed a 42 U.S.C. §1983 complaint alleging that the defendants, two county jail correction officers, violated her Fourth Amendment rights by observing her naked body during her stay at a local hospital to deliver a baby and (2) the defendants’ motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity was denied, their contention that observing the plaintiff's body in the manner described does n…See the Story

Search and seizure – Traffic stop – Protective sweep

Where a defendant moved to suppress evidence and statements resulting from a stop and search of his vehicle by Somerville police officers, a judge’s decision to allow that motion must be reversed because the officers had reasonable suspicion both to stop the defendant and to conduct a protective sweep of the vehicle.See the Story

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