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Recent updates:

• Update: August 2025

  Dear Subscriber:

  Thank you for updating your library with the 2025 edition of the Pocket Guide to Massachusetts Evidence . This compact guide continues to bring you statements of evidence rules, common objections, and brief summaries of case law in an easy-to-navigate alphabetical format.

  Highlights of this edition include updated citations and information on a wide range of evidentiary developments, addressing issues such as

  • sexual assault by a third party subject to the rape-shield law;

  • the use of cross-examination to highlight the deficiencies in a chalk;

  • expert testimony on ballistics testing;

  • the "good reason" required for certain kinds of eyewitness identifications;

  • research on eyewitness identification as newly discovered evidence;

  • the scope of permissible lay opinion;

  • the inadmissibility of testimony on SAIN (Sexual Abuse Intervention Network) interviews;

  • Confrontation Clause issues implicated by searches of firearms databases;

  • computer-generated data as nonhearsay;

  • the circumstances under which prior bad acts will be admissible;

  • the inapplicability of the Adjutant rule to the defense of others; and

  • the scope of the parent-child disqualification.

  Throughout the 2025 edition are updated references to the most recent version of the Massachusetts Guide to Evidence, prepared by the Supreme Judicial Court Advisory Committee on Massachusetts Evidence Law.

  We trust you will find this updated version of the Pocket Guide to Massachusetts Evidence an invaluable resource for your practice.

  Very truly yours,

  John M. Lawlor, MCLE Publications Attorney

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