More than 150 criminal cases were dismissed in Boston Municipal Court this week due to a lack of representation for defendants. One of the cases involved the alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl.
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Rhode Island couple dead after their plane crashes onto I-195 in Dartmouth
Two people are dead after a small aircraft crashed onto a highway in southern Massachusetts before bursting into flames.
SJC rules lawsuits against Harvard over stolen body parts from morgue can move forward
Lawsuits against Harvard in relation to a macabre scheme that led human body parts to be sold out of the morgue for several years may move forward, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday.
Mass State Police dispatch bomb squad after State House vandalism, FBI involved
The state’s bomb squad along with the FBI responded Wednesday to a suspicious package on Boston Common after graffiti was discovered defacing the iron and granite entrance gate to the State House.
Essex DA releases footage of the moments before death of Haverhill man
The Essex County District Attorney’s office has released a video compilation showing the moments just before a Haverhill man died following a struggle with police officers.
Courts seek more judges as legal deadline looms for unrepresented indigent defendants
BOSTON — Citing an ever-growing backlog of cases and the need to comply with a court-ordered deadline, Massachusetts trial courts have asked the Supreme Judicial Court to modify its July 3 order so they can assign more judges to preside over upcoming hearings for indigent defendants who have gone 45 days without legal representation.
