Supreme Judicial Court Appoints
Members To Advisory Committee on
Massachusetts Evidence Law
The
Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court today announced
the appointments of seventeen members to the newly established
Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Evidence Law. Appeals
Court Justice R. Marc Kantrowitz was named as chair.
The
Court created the Advisory Committee to prepare a Guide
to the Massachusetts law of evidence at the request of
the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association,
and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. The Advisory
Committee's mandate is to compile existing Massachusetts
evidence law into an easy-to-use document, organized similarly
to the Federal Rules of Evidence. The Guide to Evidence
in Massachusetts is expected to be completed within a year.
Superior
Court Judge Peter W. Agnes, Jr. and Superior Court Judge
David A. Lowy will serve as Assistant Editors, and Appeals
Court Assistant Clerk Joseph Stanton will provide staff
assistance to the Advisory Committee. The other members
are as follows:
| Professor Michael Avery, Suffolk University
Law School |
| Professor Mark Brodin, Boston College
Law School |
| Judge James W. Coffey, Boston Municipal
Court |
| Professor Kevin Connelly, Southern New
England School of Law |
| Judge Patricia G. Curtin, Acting First
Justice, Dedham District Court |
| Judge Michael F. Edgerton, Essex Juvenile
Court |
| Assistant Attorney General Steven L.
Hoffman, Business & Labor Protection Bureau |
| Timothy Maguire, Esq., Greenberg Taurig
LLP |
| Tracy A. Miner, Esq., Mintz Levin Cohn
Ferris Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. |
| Elizabeth N. Mulvey, Esq., Crowe & Mulvey,
LLP |
| Martin F. Murphy, Esq., Foley Hoag,
LLP |
| Judge Geoffrey G. Packard, Malden District
Court |
| Katherine A. Robertson, Esq., Bulkley,
Richardson & Gelinas, LLP |
| Judge Catherine P. Sabaitis, First Justice,
Plymouth Probate and Family Court |
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