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.

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

Declaring a “systemic violation” of constitutional rights, Massachusetts’ highest court on Thursday ordered trial courts in ...

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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 ...