Vol. 18 No. 1, February - February 2013

Index

• Say what? Confusion in the courts over what is the proper standard of review for hearsay rulings.
• Say what? Confusion in the courts over what is the proper standard of review for hearsay rulings.
• The gun-shy commonwealth: self-defense and concealed carry in post-Heller Massachusetts.
• Crumbling patchwork: Massachusetts's efforts to fill the gaps left by Crawford are now redundant.
• Waiting for John Doe: the practical and constitutional implications of DNA indictments.
• Thinking outside of the box: why prisons are only part of the solution.
• Criminal law - Terry searches predicated on nothing more than reasonable suspicion that a suspect is armed and dangerous.
• Family law - expanding trial courts' authority to create contracts during the equitable division of property in a divorce action.
• Evidence - present sense and common sense: stretching the 803(1) hearsay exception to its limits.