Gov. Charlie Baker is slimming down the state's list of judicial vacancies as he prepares to exit the corner office in January, but there are still at least eight spots that the Swampscott Republican could fill in the coming months.
Where a respondent was committed to the Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital, the commitment order must be vacated because the respondent was held for observation before the hospital’s filing of the petition in excess of the statutory time limit under G.L.c. 123, §§15 and 16. “The Ayer District Court committed the respondent, K.M., to the