Attorney Wood recently testified as an expert witness on the effective assistance of counsel. in a pretrial evidentiary hearing in a Norfolk County felony case. A superior court judge found him qualified to explain the constitutional and ethical obligations of a criminal defense lawyer generally, the elements of effective representation, and to offer an opinion on the effectiveness of the defendant's prior attorney in permitting his client to submit to a police interrogation.

Attorney Wood recently co-authored an amicus brief for the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in coalition with the Committee for Public Counsel Services, the New England Innocence Project, and the Innocence Project about the admissibility of eyewitness identification expert testimony in post-conviction challenges. Many Massachusetts defendants were tried at a time when social science had discovered several factors that affect the reliability of eye-witness testimony but Massachusetts courts were still regularly excluding expert testimony on such research. MACDL hopes this case will clarify that defendants convicted based in part on eye-witness testimony must be given an opportunity to challenge the reliability of that testimony in post conviction proceedings through such expert testimony.