Due to low compensation rates causing bar advocates to decline court-appointed cases, Massachusetts is facing a surge of ...

More than 50 people across Boston and neighboring Middlesex County are being held without a lawyer assigned to their case as ...

We talked to three defense attorneys about retrials they've seen, how they turn out and what they think of the Karen Read ...

Court-appointed criminal defense attorneys across Massachusetts began to refuse taking new cases as courts returned to session Tuesday morning, opening the door to a potential statewide public safety ...

The move has had a profound impact in the state, where federal agents in May arrested 1,461 people, nearly half of whom had ...

A judge in Massachusetts has ordered Harvard researcher Kseniia Petrova released from custody as she faces charges related to ...

From the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the case against former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez, Massachusetts' courthouses have seen a number of shocking criminal ...

president of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “This is not sustainable. It is not just." The bar advocates handle about 80% of cases involving indigent clients ...

Women Nearly Twice as Likely To Be Charged In more than 200 closed-door hearings in Massachusetts criminal courts, men's cases were nearly twice as likely as women's cases to be dismissed ...