Boston Blotter: SJC Takes Hard Line Against Nude Protest

--According to the Herald, the Commonwealth's Supreme Judicial Court ruled that, "Dancing nude in Harvard Square to protest the commercialization of Christmas is not a constitutionally protected act of self-expression," overturning a decision by a lower court to throw out a case against a local woman. The Herald doesn't have much background information about the defendant, except what they could obtain from a vague MySpace profile. [Boston Herald]

--Police are investigating the dissapearance of an 81-year-old Waltham woman: "Jean is black, stands 5 feet 4, and weighs 180 pounds. Her pocketbook was found on Beacon Street recently, but there has been no other sign of her." [Boston Globe]

--The Natick man who infamously beat another father to death at a youth hockey practice in 2002 was denied parole from his involuntary manslaughter conviction. [Boston Herald]

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