Court defers finding of guilt for Alcazar following no contest plea and indictment review.

In the Wheeler argument the court questioned whether officers’ early contact (grabbing the suspect’s arm and crowding him) rendered a later "you can search everything" volunteered statement involuntary; counsel debated whether the pat frisk and timing vitiated consent under Massachusetts precedent.

In Commonwealth v. Hall, defense counsel argued that hospital blood drawn without the defendant’s consent and medical-record conversions should be excluded under state precedents; the panel pressed on whether the draw was for treatment, whether conversion is a 'test or analysis,' and whether the appeal is procedurally proper.