On January 19, 2021, Ryan Schiff won a major victory in the Supreme Judicial Court in the case Dinkins v. Massachusetts Parole Board. The Court struck down a Parole Board regulation that has been in effect for more than 32 years, finding that it was “contrary to the plain terms…
Last Thursday, June 11th, an Elkins, Auer, Rudof & Schiff client walked out of prison and went home to his wife after 15 years of imprisonment. He was sentenced to life in prison for an offense that occurred when he was seventeen years old. After Ryan Schiff represented him at…
SPRINGFIELD — A Hampden Superior Court judge has ruled statements made by murder defendant Edward Gonzalez after he asked for a lawyer four times during a police interview cannot be used at trial. Gonzalez, 25, and Juan Villegas-Rodriguez, 33, both of Holyoke, have denied murder charges related to the Jan. 25,…
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly has named Marissa Elkins one of its 2015 Lawyers of the Year for her work before the Supreme Judicial Court successfully arguing that Article 12 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Human Rights requires that prosecutors should not be allowed to use previously acquitted conduct against a defendant…
The young man in this case did not have to die, but the jury correctly found that Attorney Elkins’ client was not to blame and acquitted him of manslaughter. Unbeknownst to him and his family, the victim’s 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee was a deathtrap, primed to go up in flames…
One hit from a Taser sends 50,000 volts of electricity coursing through the body. Oliver Rich, of Hatfield, sustained far more than that one night in 2010. Following a traffic stop in Greenfield, Rich was tased at least five times over the course of a few minutes. The officers treated…
