News, Pleadings
David Nathanson
Public Trial Amicus Brief

On March 6, 2017, Attorney Wood and a team of attorneys from Ropes & Gray filed a brief in the Supreme Court on behalf of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in Weaver v. Massachusetts, No. 16-240. They argue that the Court should not shy away from vindicating the treasured right to a public trial. The government's argument that vindicating the right to a public trial would "open up the floodgates" is both factually incorrect and diverts attention from the real issue: whether our Constitution entitles everyone to a public trial. Read the brief here.

HInton Drug Lab

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Emails Reveal New Evidence of Misconduct at Hinton Drug Laboratory

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This week, the Boston Globe reported on a series of cases that Wood & Nathanson attorney Christopher Post has been working on for the past several years, along with parallel litigation by Attorney James McKenna. New information proves that misconduct at the Hinton Drug Lab was wider than previously known. This information came to light because of Attorney Post’s relentless push both to obtain the internal emails of the Office of the Inspector General (‘OIG’) and then his fight to make them public. Read the emails here.