Democratic leaders’ decision to omit the proposal from their wider spending plan frustrated attorneys, known as bar advocates ...

At a hearing on Thursday, Holly Smith, a CPCS lawyer, said there 1,387 unrepresented defendants in the commonwealth, 100 of ...

I think floodgates are going to open ... potentially dangerous criminals are going to get released, and that’s a huge concern ...

At just 13, a Massachusetts boy turned to alcohol and marijuana. By 15, he was hooked on heroin. Now, three decades later, the scars of that addiction run deep — and at 39, he’s been sentenced ...

Retired Massachusetts physician Roger Kligler, a plaintiff in a right-to-die lawsuit, speaks to reporters outside a courtroom in Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., March ...

Gov. Maura Healey announced the nomination of Associate Justice Gabrielle Wolohojian, her old flame, to fill a vacancy on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Who gets to keep an engagement ring if a romance turns sour and the wedding is called off? That’s what the highest court in Massachusetts was asked to decide with a $70,000 ring at the center of ...

Court data on more than 200 criminal clerk-magistrate hearings from 2020 to 2022 in Massachusetts shows that clerks were nearly twice as likely to dismiss cases against men as compared to women.

News Mass. Justices Issue New Guidelines for Courts Handling Self-Represented Litigants in Civil Cases The new 49-page guide updates and supersedes the 2006-issued guidelines, and includes ...

They say it’s not a step they take lightly, but a group of contracted public defenders have declared they won’t take new clients until they see a pay raise.

The Supreme Court vacated a Massachusetts gun control law in one of the first orders of its new term following the justices' June ruling striking down a New York statute.

Massachusetts’ highest court is hearing arguments in a Republican challenge to mail-in voting, which the state GOP contends is unconstitutional. Skip to content WPRI.com ...