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’ 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.

Robert Hatcher, 60, was held without the right to bail after being arraigned for murder and other charges in Springfield ...

Lorenze Labonte, 27, was charged with murder in connection with the 2023 death of Ahmed Sharif. Labonte chose not to testify ...