Criminal Defense Archives

A judge in the Boston Municipal Court recently allowed Attorney Goldenberg’s motion to dismiss the charges against her client because the clerk issued a criminal complaint without holding a show cause hearing. Her client was legally entitled to this… Read More A judge in the Salem Superior Court allowed my motion to suppress my client’s statements made while local police and federal agents were executing a search warrant in his house. While my client was not formally in custody as he was in his home and not… Read More Charges against my client, a New Hampshire resident, for possessing a firearm without a license in Massachusetts were dismissed today. Judge John Coffey (Presiding Judge of the Lowell District Court) ruled that it is unconstitutional to criminalize the… Read More In Commonwealth v. Perry, the Supreme Judicial Court described the warrant requirement for seizing evidence of cellular tower dumps. As opposed phone warrants or location information warrants for a single phone user, tower dumps allow the police to obtain… Read More You have probably heard that in federal court, no one accused of a crime ever goes to trial. Conviction rates are very high in federal court, which is of no surprise because federal prosecutors have the luxury of picking which cases they wish to pursue…. Read More Governor’s proposed marijuana impaired driving law will punish people who do not consent to providing bodily fluids for testing and will compromise trials Governor Baker has recently announced that he will refile legislation aimed at cracking down on… Read More Defense attorneys Blake Rubin and Angela Cavanaugh were found not guilty of witness intimidation after being accused of arranging for a key witness in a human trafficking case to be bailed out and made difficult to locate. Rubin represented Fabian Beltran… Read More Keren Goldenberg was invited to present a lecture to defense attorneys about forensic DNA analysis. The program was organized by the Greater Lowell Bar Association and welcomed attendees from all over the state. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the program… Read More A client on probation in the Middlesex Superior Court was found to have not violated his terms of probation despite being charged with a crime while on probation. The judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence that the probationer had committed… Read More The First Circuit Court of Appeals has held that the criminalization under Massachusetts state law of secretly audio recording police while they perform their duties in public spaces is unconstitutional. The ruling, Project Veritas v. Rollins, was issued… Read More