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 bar advocate strike causes chaos in the criminal legal system. Defendants without lawyers may be released or ...

A lawsuit remains pending against Karen Read, and legal experts say it could have significant financial ramifications for ...

A woman accused of posing as a Boston Public Schools student was set to resolve her criminal case Tuesday, but reached an ...

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

The Trump administration’s immigration enforcements policies conflict with American traditions, values and “do unto others” ...

A Boston police sergeant has been charged with the aggravated rape of a 14-year-old he found on the app Grindr and paying the ...

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.

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

The 82-year-old poses a "substantial risk" to federal officials he compiled personal information about, a judge found.