MATTER OF A GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION

SJC-12869.

485 Mass. 641 (2020)

IN THE MATTER OF A GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 8, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Harrington ( Edward P. Harrington also present) for the petitioners.

Shoshana E. Stern , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Scott P. Lewis , Samuel B. Dinning , Matthew R. Segal , Jessica J. Lewis , & Daniel L. McFadden , for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Inc., & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.


In 2019, the district attorney learned through immunized grand jury testimony that two police officers, the petitioners in this case, knowingly made false statements in their police reports that concealed the unlawful use of force by a fellow officer against an arrestee and supported a bogus criminal charge of resisting arrest against...

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