Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Adams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 27, 2019No. SJC 12620PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGaziano, J.
**515 We address, for the first time, whether interference with the lawful duties of a police officer is a common-law crime in Massachusetts.
Part II, c. 6, art. 6, of the Massachusetts Constitution provides that the common law that existed before the 1780 adoption of that Constitution was "preserved and continued," and remains in full force until altered or repealed by the Legislature. Crocker v. Justices of the Superior Court , 208 Mass. 162 , 171, 94 N.E. 369 (1911). After an examination of our Nineteenth Century jurisprudence concerning the illegal acts of "obstructing" or "hindering" a…
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