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

Religious liberty must be balanced against other values. Not surprisingly, they become the stuff of intense legal and ...

A justice from Massachusetts’ highest court has appointed a special master to investigate claims that a New Bedford judge ...

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The Supreme Judicial Court did not directly order what is known as a Daubert-Lanigan hearing, but instructed judges to conduct the detailed examination of ShotSpotter technology once requested.

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 ...

Though overdose deaths declined over the last three years, Kentucky still has one of the highest rates of opioid use disorder ...

The death of Annamarie Cochrane Rintala in March 2010 and the legal action that ensued against her spouse, Cara Rintala, became one of Massachusetts' most high-profile and longest-running criminal cas ...

More than 1,000 criminal cases across Texas may now have a question mark over them. The culprit? Faulty DNA tests. As Texas Public Radio's Paul Flahive reports, the tests were made by one of the ...

In 1996, the Mass. Legislature passed a law that allowed children as young as 14 charged with murder to be tried as adults.