The Massachusetts court system could face a crisis without these lawyers because defendants have a constitutional right to ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today released documents detailing the criminal histories of eight individuals with ...

Governor Maura Healey nominates five attorneys as Associate Justices of the District Court in Massachusetts to handle a wide ...

Rhode Island’s top legal chief says a Massachusetts construction company will pay $11 million to settle criminal charges that it illegally dumped thousands of tons of contaminated fill during a highwa ...

She was barely a teenager, just 13 years old, when she had to decide whether she wanted prosecutors to press charges against the man she said repeatedly raped her.

The Massachusetts judge presiding over Karen Read's second trial in the death of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe has ...

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 ...

A judicial order by a district judge in Massachusetts has ignited a fierce debate over judicial overreach and national security, as it seeks to block the ...

The best criminal justice reporting tagged with "Lincoln, Massachusetts," curated by The Marshall Project.

is to Rule 14 of Massachusetts Criminal Procedure. This rule governs discovery: what the prosecution and defense have to turn over to each other ahead of a court case. Because prosecutors face the ...