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 ...

Nearly 1,500 people have been detained in Massachusetts by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the last ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harvard researcher Kseniia Petrova was released on bail after a 10-minute hearing in her criminal smuggling case – of frog ...

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

Providers and state officials sometimes recommend that state-run shelter residents should check to see if they are eligible to seal potential Massachusetts criminal records that could be a barrier ...