In August 2012, Annie Dookhan, a veteran chemist with a Massachusetts state drug lab, admitted to contaminating samples and faking test results during her 8½-year career. More than 20,000 drug…
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At least two politicians are returning campaign donations to a Boston personal-injury law firm after a Boston Globe report said high-profile partners who donated money were quickly reimbursed with law…
The top court in Massachusetts is being asked to toss more than 24,000 convictions that are linked to a chemist who admitted to tampering with evidence samples to favor law…
A Massachusetts judge is being criticized for sentencing a high school athlete to two years of probation for the indecent assault of a classmate who was unconscious after a drinking…
Prosecutors are entitled to a search warrant to obtain the cellphone that former Patriots star Aaron Hernandez initially turned over to his former lawyer, the top court in Massachusetts has…
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has signed into law an updated equal-pay measure that bans employers from asking job applicants about their current and previous pay.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine experienced some “bumpy years” at Harvard Law School, according to a newspaper account of his years there.
A homeless man should have been allowed to present a necessity defense in a prosecution for trespassing in cold winter weather, the top court in Massachusetts ruled on Thursday.
A lawsuit filed last week alleges a Massachusetts Panera Bread restaurant put a large dollop of peanut butter on a child’s sandwich after her parents warned about her peanut allergy…
A veteran Massachusetts criminal defense attorney was so distraught she had to be hospitalized Wednesday after her SUV accelerated backwards out of a Brockton courthouse parking space and crossed multiple…
A former Suffolk University Law School student, who allegedly tampered with his criminal court record and now faces forgery and perjury charges, appeared in court for a pretrial hearing on…