was sworn in on July 28, 2014. In April 2020, Grants wrote a concurrence arguing against a bright line rule defining where use of automatic number-plate recognition cameras becomes an unconstitutional search when the unanimous court upheld their warrantless use on bridges to Cape Cod. Personal life and death Justice Gants was married with two children. Gants died on September 14, 2020, at the age of 65. He had previously suffered a heart attack. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts closed the courts on Friday, September 18, 2020 as a day of remembrance for Chief Justice Gants. References |- 1954 births 2020 deaths 21st-century American judges Alumni of the University of Cambridge Assistant United States Attorneys Chief Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Harvard College alumni Harvard Law School alumni Lawyers from New Rochelle, New York Massachusetts Superior Court justices Politicians from New Rochelle, New York