Keren Goldenberg

Client found not guity of aggravated rape of a child

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Jan 13Categories: Recent Win, Sex Crimes

Yesterday a Middlesex Superior Court jury found my client not guilty of three counts of aggravated rape of a child. He was facing 10 year mandatory minimum sentences. Sex crimes, especially when allegedly committed against children, carry an unofficial...

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Client’s 2005 conviction for recording the police vacated

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Sep 27Categories: Recent Win, Knowledge Sharing

A judge in the Woburn District Court vacated my client’s 2005 conviction for recording a police officer who had pulled him over. The First Circuit ruled in 2020 that the application of the Massachusetts wiretap law to criminalize the secret recording...

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Probation Supervision Fees have been abolished in MA state courts

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Aug 24Categories: Knowledge Sharing, Probation

A little bit of good new for people on state probation in Massachusetts. Amendments to G. L. c. 276, § 87A have repealed probation supervision fees, effective July 1, 2022. Probationers who have already paid probation fees for July and August of 2022...

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Client discharged from probation early for good behavior

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Aug 10Categories: Recent Win, Probation

A Middlesex Superior Court judge allowed Attorney Goldenberg’s motion to terminate her client’s probation early because he had done so well on supervision. Clients who are successful while on probation and have completed more than half of...

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Double Victory: Harassment Prevention Orders not issued against mother and son clients

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Jul 16Categories: Recent Win

Attorneys Kayla Weaton and Keren Goldenberg represented a mother and son whose neighbor tried to get harassment prevention orders against both of them. On two different days, in two different courts, two different judges declined to issue these orders...

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PRIVACY ALERT! SJC sets warrant application requirement for seizing cell phone “tower dump” evidence

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Jul 16Categories: Criminal Defense, Knowledge Sharing

In Commonwealth v. Perry, the Supreme Judicial Court described the warrant requirement for seizing evidence of cellular tower dumps. As opposed phone warrants or location information warrants for a single phone user, tower dumps allow the police to obtain...

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Abortion Access and Criminal Liability in Massachusetts Post-Roe v. Wade

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Jun 27Categories: Knowledge Sharing

Abortion remains legal in Massachusetts despite the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Roe v. Wade, which ended the federal right to abortion, allows states to enact abortion bans, and invites criminal prosecutions of abortion recipients and people providing...

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Reflections on the elusive federal trial

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Jun 02Categories: Criminal Defense, Knowledge Sharing, Federal Practice

You have probably heard that in federal court, no one accused of a crime ever goes to trial. Conviction rates are very high in federal court, which is of no surprise because federal prosecutors have the luxury of picking which cases they wish to pursue....

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Motor Vehicle Homicide charges dismissed

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Apr 06Categories: Driving Offenses, Recent Win

For the past 3 years Attorney Goldenberg has been representing a client accused of negligent motor vehicle homicide. From the first time they met, she suspected that he had suffered a seizure that resulted in the fatal collision. He had never been diagnosed...

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Marijuana impaired driving law will result in unfair criminal trials and license suspensions

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Nov 14Categories: Drug Crimes, Driving Offenses, Criminal Defense, Knowledge Sharing

Governor’s proposed marijuana impaired driving law will punish people who do not consent to providing bodily fluids for testing and will compromise trials Governor Baker has recently announced that he will refile legislation aimed at cracking down on...

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