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Bench-Bar Symposium
"You have to think outside the box. Just putting
people in jail isn't working."
MBA President Robert W.
Harnais, Boston Globe, October 21
Harnais was quoted in Globe coverage of the MBA's
Annual Bench-Bar Symposium, which featured the State of the
Judiciary Address by Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Ralph D.
Gants. The event was also covered by WBUR, The Republican/MassLive.com (Springfield), State House News Service and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
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DraftKings
"It's only a matter of time before some sort of regulatory
scheme is proposed or legislation is enacted."
MBA Chief Legal Counsel and
Chief Operating Officer Martin W. Healy, The Republican/MassLive.com, October
20
Healy was quoted in a piece about fantasy sports site DraftKings
and its hiring of former Attorney General Martha Coakley as an
adviser. Fantasy sports sites, such as DraftKings, have recently
come under scrutiny in regards to whether or not the industry
should be regulated by the state.
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Retroactive sentence
reduction
"It seems
like the judge very sadly and reluctantly did what he was forced to
do--essentially create a legal fiction that the defendant here was
sentenced as a career offender even though he wasn't."
MBA Criminal Justice
Section Vice Chair Peter Elikann, Rhode
Island Lawyers Weekly, October 15
Elikann spoke to Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly about a
defendant classified as a career offender who was ruled ineligible
for a retroactive reduction of his sentence by a federal judge on
Sept. 24.
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Of note:
- In addition to the clip mentioned above, MBA Chief Legal
Counsel and Chief Operating Officer Martin W. Healy was quoted by
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in an Oct. 15
article on the likelihood of Cambridge District Court returning to
Cambridge from Medford, where it has been located for the past
seven years.
- In addition to the clip mentioned above, MBA President Robert
W. Harnais was a guest on the WWLP 22News program "Mass Appeal" on Oct. 21 to promote the
semi-annual Western Mass. Dial-A-Lawyer event.
- In addition to the clip mentioned above, MBA Criminal Justice
Section Vice Chair Peter Elikann appeared on FOX25 this week to
provide legal analysis on the latest developments in the "Baby
Bella" case.