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	<title>Criminal Defense in Massachusetts</title>
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	<description>Thoughts and Conversations about Criminal Defense, Public and Private, by a Criminal Defense Attorney in Massachusetts</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>If you get arrested in Massachusetts this holiday season. . .</title>
		<link>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/if-you-get-arrested-this-season/</link>
		<comments>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/12/31/if-you-get-arrested-this-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hestone</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[. . . don&#8217;t do anything before you talk to a criminal defense lawyer.  Don&#8217;t talk to the police, don&#8217;t try to explain, don&#8217;t make a quick plea just so you don&#8217;t have to go to court again.  What may seem like fairly minor offenses, like DUI, domestic assault and battery or providing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts Exigent Circumstances exception to warrant requirement clarified, also &#8220;community caretaking&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/12/27/massachusetts-exigent-circumstances-exception-to-warrant-requirement-clarified/</link>
		<comments>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/12/27/massachusetts-exigent-circumstances-exception-to-warrant-requirement-clarified/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 02:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hestone</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Criminal Practice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Evidence]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[The Black Dress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[    In the recent case Commonwealth v. Kirschner the Massachusetts Court of Appeals clarifies the &#8220;exigent circumstances&#8221; exception to the 4th Amendment search warrant requirement (aka the &#8220;emergency&#8221; exception).  The Court wrote that &#8220;the injury sought to be avoided must be immediate and serious, and the mere existence of a potentially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts OUI license suspension trap</title>
		<link>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/massachusetts-oui-license-suspension-trap/</link>
		<comments>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/massachusetts-oui-license-suspension-trap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2006 01:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hestone</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[People charged with a second or subsequent OUI in Massachusetts face steeply increasing penalties.  Some lawyers in Massachusetts tout to potential clients their ability to obtain pleas to a first offense for those charged with a second, or to a second offense for those charged with a third.  While that may be entirely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myspace as an investigative tool</title>
		<link>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/06/13/myspace-as-an-investigative-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/06/13/myspace-as-an-investigative-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hestone</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Criminal Practice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Investigation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am becoming more and more concerned about young people incriminating themselves on Myspace.&#160; I have had several young clients who have posted material on their Myspace pages that led to probation violations or impeachment material.&#160; However, the silver lining for criminal defense lawyers is the investigatory potential of the site.&#160; As Skelly at Arbitrary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Sentencing Guideline Seminar in Miami</title>
		<link>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/06/12/federal-sentencing-guideline-seminar-in-miami/</link>
		<comments>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/06/12/federal-sentencing-guideline-seminar-in-miami/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hestone</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Sentencing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Long Island (Criminal) Trial Law Blog has interesting notes from the annual Federal Sentencing Guideline Seminar here, here, here,  and here.  I couldn&#39;t go, but these notes are helpful.
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		<title>Return. . .</title>
		<link>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/06/12/return/</link>
		<comments>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/06/12/return/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hestone</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Criminal Defense Blawgs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Federal Appellate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#39;t written in about three weeks; work will do that, I guess. Te ease back into it: The First Circuit Federal Defendaer Blog has summaries of all CA1 criminal cases for May here.
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		<title>Police Misconduct; It&#8217;s the attitude, stupid</title>
		<link>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/05/20/police-misconduct-its-the-attitude-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/05/20/police-misconduct-its-the-attitude-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2006 02:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hestone</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Criminal Practice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Law Enforcement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Please read this. It is a story about Baltimore Police officers abusing and falsely arresting a married couple who stopped to ask for directions.  At worst, they may have rolled through a stop sign, and they wound up cuffed, arrested, and locked up for the night. Seriously.  Please believe it. Don&#39;t say to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breath Machine Articles by Lawrence Taylor</title>
		<link>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/05/19/breath-machine-articles-by-lawrence-taylor/</link>
		<comments>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/05/19/breath-machine-articles-by-lawrence-taylor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2006 00:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hestone</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Defenses]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Evidence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If, like me, you defend people against drunk driving charges, you will appreciate this collection of posts about the &#34;breathalyzer&#34;, the popular name for all types of breath machines, by Lawrence Taylor. Taylor is an acknowledged expert in OUI/DUI defense.&#160; He is the author of Drunk Driving Defense, now in its 6th edition, a volume [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Important Confrontation Clause cases pending in Scotus; Crawford to be clarified?</title>
		<link>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/05/14/important-confrontation-clause-cases-pending-in-scotus-crawford-to-be-clarified/</link>
		<comments>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/05/14/important-confrontation-clause-cases-pending-in-scotus-crawford-to-be-clarified/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 21:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hestone</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Evidence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Federal Appellate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Keep your eyes open for decisions in two cases from the Untied States Supreme Court that should have an impact on practice in Massachusetts.&#160; As noted by Capital Defense Weekly, two Sixth Amendment cases are awaiting decision, Davis v. Washington and Hammon v. Indiana.  Both of these cases present issues related to Crawford v. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comm. v. Matis and discovery of evidence in possession of third parties</title>
		<link>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/comm-v-matis-discussion-of-discovery-of-evidence-in-possession-of-third-parties/</link>
		<comments>http://hestone.wordpress.com/2006/05/10/comm-v-matis-discussion-of-discovery-of-evidence-in-possession-of-third-parties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 02:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hestone</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Judicial Court today issued its ruling in Commonwealth v. Matis, an interlocutory appeal regarding discovery of evidence in the possession of a third party. In short, Matis wanted his investigator to go into the juvenile alleged victim&#39;s house, where she claimed a rape had occurred, and take measurements, photographs, and make observations. The [...]]]></description>
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