Secretly recorded video that police take without a warrant can't be used at trial against a suspect in Massachusetts, the state's highest court has ruled.
Prosecutors in a drug case in East Boston and Brighton were hoping to use at least the video without the audio recording of what was said, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided that in light of a state statute that bans surreptitious recordings both must be tossed.
Massachusetts saw a spike in the number of abortions conducted in the state last year.
The Bay State conducted 24,355 abortions last year, according to data from the Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics obtained by NewBostonPost. That's a 37.2 percent increase over the 17,757 abortions that happened in 2022.
