The court held that Massachusetts law prohibits a nonconsensual blood draw for blood-alcohol testing in an OUI-related prosecution, even when police obtain a search warrant, so the blood-alcohol evidence was improperly admitted and its admission was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 2020
Published opinions from 2020. The case name opens the case page.
2020 opinions
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that the defendants' delay in receiving counsel did not require their release, clarified the level of detail judges must provide when setting unaffordable bail, and affirmed that a judge may set cash bail a defendant cannot afford under both the regular bail statutes and…
The court affirmed suppression of GPS location data obtained from a defendant who was required to wear a GPS device as a condition of pretrial release. It held that imposing GPS monitoring was a search under art.