Governor Maura Healey nominates five attorneys as Associate Justices of the District Court in Massachusetts to handle a wide ...

The Massachusetts judge presiding over Karen Read's second trial in the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe has ...

Assistant clerk magistrate in West Roxbury, legal advisor from Marshfield and clerk magistrate from West Tisbury also ...

A justice from Massachusetts’ highest court has appointed a special master to investigate claims that a New Bedford judge ...

Five new Massachusetts attorneys were nominated by Governor Maura Healey Wednesday for Associate Justice positions in ...

She was barely a teenager, just 13 years old, when she had to decide whether she wanted prosecutors to press charges against the man she said repeatedly raped her.

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The Supreme Judicial Court did not directly order what is known as a Daubert-Lanigan hearing, but instructed judges to conduct the detailed examination of ShotSpotter technology once requested.

U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy said the removals violated his prior order that migrants be given time to challenge their ...

Will less of a penalty lead to more compliance? One high-profile law enforcement official and two local lawmakers believe ...

Religious liberty must be balanced against other values. Not surprisingly, they become the stuff of intense legal and ...

In 1996, the Mass. Legislature passed a law that allowed children as young as 14 charged with murder to be tried as adults.