Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez—already charged with murder in Massachusetts and facing a Florida civil suit by another man who says Hernandez shot…
The top court in Massachusetts has ruled that police need a warrant to obtain cellphone location data to track a suspect for more than a brief time period.
A former law student at Roger Williams University was being evaluated Tuesday night following an incident in which he allegedly sent threatening email to faculty and administrators at the university’s…
After a decision earlier this month by a divided federal appeals court panel that the state of Massachusetts must pay for a prison inmate’s sex-change surgery, the Department of Correction…
Saying that a woman charged with leaving the scene of an accident last week is a “menace to everyone on the road,” a Massachusetts judge the next day ordered the…
In what is being billed as the first such decision by a federal appeals court, the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday agreed with a trial court…
Fired in 2009 by award-winning stage actress Julie Harris, her former lawyer and onetime potential executor, Herbert Nass, has filed an objection to her will in a Massachusetts probate court.
Instead of putting the burden on defendants to challenge convictions in over 40,000 Massachusetts criminal cases linked to a rogue chemist who falsified results while working at a state evidence…
The Boston Bar Association has taken a stand against capital punishment at the federal level as prosecutors consider whether to seek the death penalty against the suspected Boston Marathon bomber,…
John J. “Jack” Curtin Jr., a longtime leader of the law firm now known as Bingham McCutchen, died last week in a senior living community in the Boston area. He…
A former chemist for a Massachusetts drug laboratory who faked test results in order to appear more productive pleaded guilty Friday to 27 counts, including obstruction of justice and evidence-tampering,…
A Massachusetts lawyer has been criminally charged, accused of using his attorney credential to gain access to the Chelsea District Courthouse lockup without a search in order to attempt to…