Program fee: $50 SLL members and CPCS staff, bar advocates and prosecutors; $65 all others.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns Author of Massachusetts Criminal Law: A Prosecutor’s Guide

CPCS approved for 2 hours of credit by the Post-conviction, Youth Advocacy Division, and Adult Criminal Trial panels.

Judge Stearns will cover the following topics:
► Searches of computers and cell phones under state and federal law
► Mistakes of fact and law: Is there a case for a Massachusetts “good-faith” exception?
► Courtroom closures and the First and Sixth Amendments
► Chief Justice Gants’ identification evidence revolution
► Modernizing the Webster charge
► The future viability of the third-party records doctrine
► The Confrontation Clause: Is Crawford on its way out?
► The new Gun Violence Act: Will it survive the Second Amendment?
► New developments in state statutory interpretation (from larceny to criminal harassment)
► Threats, social media, free speech, and the rules of evidence
► Traffic stops, cell tower data, and the Fourth Amendment

SPECIAL OFFER for those attending the program: Massachusetts Prosecutor’s Guide will offer to each attendee a $25 discount on advance orders of Judge Stearns’ 35th edition (to be released in September), or a $20 discount on a one-year subscription to the Prosecutor’s Guide Online Web Site (Massachusetts sales tax applies). Details to be distributed at the program.