Keren Goldenberg

Do I Need to Go to Court? Massachusetts Courts Issue Orders for COVID

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Mar 13Categories: Knowledge Sharing, Criminal Defense

Following Governor Baker declaring a state of emergency and imploring residents to practice social distancing in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the courts have placed some limits on their proceedings. These limitations are changing rapidly...

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Keren lectures Lowell lawyers on minimizing the consequences of district court sentences

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Mar 01Categories: Criminal Defense, Knowledge Sharing

Attorney Keren Goldenberg lectured defense attorney from the Greater Lowell Bar Association and Middlesex Defense Attorneys about sentencing enhancements and other considerations when negotiating pleas and sentences in the state district court. What appears...

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Motion to suppress allowed in Lowell District Court

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Feb 12Categories: Violent Crimes, Criminal Defense, Recent Win

Kayla Fahey won a Motion to Suppress and was able to get all incriminating evidence discovered in her client’s car suppressed for trial. The Chelmsford police represented in their police report that they had permission to search her client’s car through...

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Not Guilty on domestic assault charges

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Jan 27Categories: Violent Crimes, Criminal Defense, Recent Win, Domestic Violence

Kayla Fahey successfully defended her client at trial facing serious domestic charges including: Domestic Assault and Battery, Kidnapping and Strangulation. The prosecution presenting testimony from her client’s ex-girlfriend, who claimed to be the...

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Assault Charges Dismissed for Mom Standing Up for her Son

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Oct 31Categories: Violent Crimes, Recent Win

Assault charges were dismissed against a client who confronted the person who had been harassing, humiliating, and stalking her transgender son. A review of the harasser’s anti-trans social media posts and corroboration by my client’s son of the ongoing...

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Court sets limits on when a fatal overdose can form the basis of a manslaughter conviction

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Oct 26Categories: Knowledge Sharing, Drug Crimes

Earlier this month the Supreme Judicial Court in Commonwealth v. Carrillo overturned an involuntary manslaughter conviction for an individual who had given heroin to his roommate who then died of an overdose. This prosecution is not unique to Massachusetts;...

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When They See Us: Why People Confess to Crimes That They Did Not Commit

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Oct 17Categories: Criminal Defense, Knowledge Sharing

Here’s an interesting fact for your consideration. Of the 350+ people exonerated thanks to representation by the Innocence Project, 29% of them falsely confessed to their crimes. They were exonerated by DNA evidence to show that that they did not commit...

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A One-Day Federal Prison Sentence on a Drug Conspiracy

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Oct 15Categories: Drug Crimes, Recent Win, Federal Practice

For the first time ever I had something good happen in federal court at a sentencing hearing. I’m not talking about getting the best lousy outcome available (like the judge imposing a mandatory minimum but not going higher), but a legitimately good...

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Keren serves as faculty for Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Sep 21Categories: Knowledge Sharing

Every year I happily accept the invitation to serve as faculty for Harvard Law School’s Trial Advocacy Workshop. Every year I am assigned to trial teams who represent a while police officer in a civil rights violation case brought forward by a black...

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Keren presents at the Middlesex Defense Attorneys annual conference

Author: Keren GoldenbergOn: Sep 14Categories: Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence, Knowledge Sharing

Today I presented at the annual training conference for the Middlesex Defense Attorneys. It was a repeat of the lecture I gave over the summer for the Suffolk Lawyers for Justice about Violations of Restraining Orders. I started talking about a case with...

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