{"id":2947,"date":"2023-04-01T05:50:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T09:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2023-03-30T16:52:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T20:52:56","slug":"massachusetts-appeals-courts-discusses-evidence-to-prove-operation-in-recent-concord-district-court-oui-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-appeals-courts-discusses-evidence-to-prove-operation-in-recent-concord-district-court-oui-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Appeals Courts discusses evidence to prove operation in recent Concord District Court OUI case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a Massachusetts OUI Lawyer when I reviewed a case I make sure that the Commonwealth can prove operation. \u00a0In conversations with clients, many times the client will believe that the Commonwealth cannot prove operation because the client was not scene driving; however, Massachusetts OUI law does permit circumstantial evidence of operation. \u00a0One of the key rules on operation is that a conviction of OUI cannot be grounded solely in the uncorroborated confession of a defendant. \u00a0But what type of evidence is sufficient to establish corroboration. The Massachusetts Appeals Court in the case of<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, the Appeals Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts clarified the standard of corroborated evidence required for convictions based on admissions. \u00a0The Appeals Court addressed this issue in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/files\/documents\/2023\/03\/15\/r22P0616.pdf\"><em>Commonwealth v. Lagotic<\/em>, on March 15,2023. \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to Corroborate a confession?<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-appeals-courts-discusses-evidence-to-prove-operation-in-recent-concord-district-court-oui-case\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Massachusetts Appeals Courts discusses evidence to prove operation in recent Concord District Court OUI case\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Massachusetts OUI Lawyer when I reviewed a case I make sure that the Commonwealth can prove operation. \u00a0In conversations with clients, many times the client will believe that the Commonwealth cannot prove operation because the client was not scene driving; however, Massachusetts OUI law does permit circumstantial evidence of operation. \u00a0One of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-offense-oui"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Massachusetts Appeals Courts discusses evidence to prove operation in recent Concord District Court OUI case &#8212; 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