With increasing frequency, surveillance footage from pole cameras and wiretaps are a significant component of the investigation, discovery practice, and motion and trial stages of criminal cases in Massachusetts. This engaging, comprehensive program is designed to equip lawyers with the necessary knowledge and skills to navigate the complex world of electronic surveillance and its legal implications.
Join the panel as we examine new and emerging caselaw, discovery practices, suppression issues, and evidentiary challenges regarding its introduction as evidence at trials.
Join the panel as we examine new and emerging caselaw, discovery practices, suppression issues, and evidentiary challenges regarding its introduction as evidence at trials.
Course Content
2:00pm - 2:20pmPole Cameras & Wiretapping: Introductions, program overview, opportunities for questions, significant SJC cases
Meredith Reeves, Esq.,
Committee for Public Counsel Services, Lawrence
2:20pm - 2:40pm
Nuts & Bolts of Pole Cameras & Wiretapping: explain technologies themselves, obtaining search warrants, life of investigation, viewing/analyzing data collected
Christina P. Ronan, Esq.,
Office of the Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester
2:50pm - 3:10pm
Nuts & Bolts of Pole Cameras & Wiretapping: using/introducing into evidence (ID vs. exhibit), relevant motions in limine
Eduardo A. Masferrer, Esq.,
Masferrer and Associates, PC, Boston
3:20pm - 3:40pm
View from the Bench: what the judge considers in granting/denying search warrants; presiding over motions to suppress
Hon. Jeffrey T. Karp,
Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston
Please Note
This webcast is delivered completely online, underscoring their convenience and appeal.
There are no published print materials. All written materials are available electronically only.
They are posted 24 hours prior to the program and can be accessed, downloaded, or printed from your computer.
Speakers
ChairMeredith Reeves, Esq.,
Committee for Public Counsel Services, Lawrence
Faculty
Hon. Jeffrey T. Karp,
Superior Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston
Eduardo A. Masferrer, Esq.,
Masferrer and Associates, PC, Boston
Christina P. Ronan, Esq.,
Office of the Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester
