Massachusetts Appeals

 

FOR ATTORNEYS SEEKING TO JOIN THE “MASSCRIMINALAPPEALS” LISTSERVE:

1) Please copy and paste then print out and complete (including your signature) the below Information Sheet/Acknowledgement/Confidentiality form.

2) Scan the signed form then email it as an attachment (in addition to the below process) to the moderator, William S. Smith, Esq.: holdenattorney@gmail.com.  Kindly include “MassCriminalAppeals” followed by your last then first name in the subject space.

3) Apply to join the listserv by going to:  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/massachusetts-criminal-appeals

Please use the “join” request system which includes its own messaging facility.  Specifically, click the blue highlight to join the group.  Then, in the box for additional notes on the bottom, please type in your name and the town or city in which your office is located.

Do not click the link that says, “email moderator/administrator.”

PLEASE BE SURE TO APPLY WITHIN ONLY A FEW MINUTES OR SO OF WHEN YOU EMAIL ME THE  Information Sheet/Acknowledgement/Confidentiality form.  This way, I will be able to easily cross reference the automated application email I will receive from the listserve system against the Information Sheet/Acknowledgement/Confidentiality form I will have already received.

The site moderator will then cross reference your email address with your signed acknowledgement on file.  Therefore, BE SURE TO SIGN UP FOR THE (GOOGLE-BASED) LISTSERVE USING THE SAME EMAIL ADDRESS YOU PROVIDE BELOW.

Please note:  This is a privately-run listerve.  CPCS has no role in the administration of either the listserve or the MassachusettsAppeals website.  As such, please do not contact anyone there if you are having difficulty joining.  Instead, call the moderator at:  774-317-9287 and leave a message outlining your issue if he is not available.

MODERATOR WILL NOT APPROVE ANY MEMBER APPLICANT NOT IN CONFORMITY WITH THE ABOVE.

Thank you.

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INFORMATION SHEET/ACKNOWLEDGEMENT & WAIVER/CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE

Member Name, Office Address and Affiliation (if any):

Member Office Phone:

Member E-Mail Address (preferably permanent address):

Due to the legal-defense-oriented nature of the materials contained herein, all
members (current and future) of both MassachusettsAppeals.com and the MassCriminalAppeals listserve expressly agree not to share the practice information posted or contained herein with any law enforcement or prosecuting entity or their agents. 

Solely in order to facilitate the free and uninhibited flow of ideas and legal practice information shared on this site, ALL members expressly agree not to disseminate in whole, or in part (and
regardless of format), ANY posting from MassCriminalAppeals, absent a court order or other duly-authorized legal process by a public agency or official, lawfully compelling that individual to do so.  And, this term and condition
remains in full force and effect regardless of whether a member reads and posts
directly to the site, or whether a member might choose to receive posting(s) to
this site by way of periodic automated e-mails.

This is a specific term and condition of remaining as a member of this website and, in the
future, of joining.

The sole exception is that any notice posted to this site pertaining to issues generally
surrounding the right to counsel, indigent defense, policy or political
discourse, or the administration of justice in the general sense (i.e., not
pertaining to a specific case or a specific member) can be freely disseminated
elsewhere, unless the person posting expressly requests
otherwise.

By submitting any information and/or postings to the Mass Criminal
Appeals LISTSERVE/website you expressly agree to be bound by the following
terms and
conditions:

If you do not wish to be bound by these terms, do not submit
anyinformation to the site and immediately discontinue your
membership.

The message boards, files section and other areas that
encourage reader/member submissions are free services provided to users of
the Yahoo group, “Massachusetts Criminal Appeals”, and may be
terminated at any time without notice.

Moderator retains the right at his sole discretion to post or remove
any posting for any reason and to disclose any information as
necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or
governmental request.

All members expressly agree to be legally responsible for their own
postings. Members also agree that your electronic access to the
message boards and reader areas of this site is at your own risk and
that your use of any technology, software, or computer service made
available by the site and/or its moderator
is on an as-is basis.

All members expressly agree to indemnify and hold
Moderator, his affiliates and their respective officers, directors and
employees harmless from any claims, damages, losses or costs
(including reasonable attorney’s fees) that arise out of any of your
submissions and/or postings to this website, and any material contained
therein, including, but not limited to, any material posted or
otherwise provided by you that infringes any copyright, trademark,
trade secret, or other intellectual property right of any person or
defames any person or violates any person’s rights of publicity or
privacy.

Moderator reserves the right to remove any submission at any
time for any reason he deems necessary, at Moderator’s sole
discretion. Because this is a listserve where the free flow of ideas
is encouraged, Moderator does not filter messages before they
are posted.
MEMBER EXPRESSLY AGREES TO
ABIDE BY THESE TERMS OR WILL BE REMOVED

THE ABOVE POLICIES SHALL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED AND MODERATOR RESERVES THE RIGHT AT HIS SOLE DISCRETION TO REVOKE ANY MEMBERSHIP

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