Bar advocates, who provide representation for most of the state's indigent defendants, stopped work in May to fight for ...

Massachusetts' highest court is imposing a legal protocol that could result in hundreds of criminal defendants being set free ...

Massachusetts’ highest court has initiated an emergency protocol that could see many indigent criminal defendants in Middlesex and Suffolk county courts released from jail or their cases dropped.

The growing fallout from a public defender work stoppage could now set criminal defendants free across Massachusetts.

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Many court-appointed attorneys have stopped taking on new clients as they fight for higher pay rates from the state.

A Supreme Judicial Court judge is weighing whether to trigger a protocol that could temporarily set free more than two dozen ...

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BOSTON — Massachusetts’ highest court has initiated an emergency protocol that could see many indigent criminal defendants in Middlesex and Suffolk county courts released from jail or even have their ...