by Professor Daniel Kanstroom Case Focus “[We] cannot escape the demands of judging or of making the difficult appraisals inherent in determining whether constitutional rights have been violated.” Goldberg, J., Haynes v. Washington, 373 U.S. 503, 515 (1963) In Commonwealth v. Sylvain,466 Mass. 422 (2013), the SJC held that the requirements placed on criminal defense […]
