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

The decision comes amid the ongoing refusal of some private defense attorneys to take on new cases amid a pay dispute.

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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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