Based on what’s been reported, I’m surprised the jury didn’t find this Defendant (undocumented immigrant Jose Garcia Zarate) guilty of at least involuntary manslaughter in the death of Kathryn Steinke, which requires only a negligent act resulting in death. If you have a gun in your hand, and it accidentally fires, that’s arguably per se […]
At the end of September, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), the Commonwealth’s highest appellate court, released a new and impactful decision pertaining to the admissibility of Field Sobriety Tests (FSTs) at trial to prove whether an individual is deemed to have driven under the influence of marijuana. In Commonwealth v. Gerhardt, the SJC narrowed […]