Cambridge District Court Clerk-Magistrate Sharon Shelfer Casey has until Friday to respond to questions from the Supreme Judicial Court about why the court hearings of alleged clients of a Massachusetts sex ring catering to prominent clientele should be held in public.
Probable cause hearings initially scheduled for this week have been halted by the court for more than two dozen people accused of paying for sex in a commercial sex ring that authorities said catered to “wealthy and well-connected clientele.”
A single justice of the state Supreme Judicial Courtcq on Wednesday postponed the legal proceedings against men suspected of buying sex from a high-end prostitution ring and gave them until Monday to contest a recent decision that magistrate hearings in their cases will be public.