With vaccines widely available and COVID-19 case counts dwindling, Massachusetts' top court hinted Tuesday it won't force state jails and prisons to let lawyers meet with clients via video conference or require the testing of all inmates.
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WORCESTER Three years ago Monday, the lawyer who handles appeals for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. reached out to a colleague in Boston to ask about that office’s long-running conviction integrity unit.
“We have to get something going here,” the Worcester prosecutor, Jane A. Sullivan, wrote in an email just before 1 p.m. on April 19, 2018.
Pineiro alleged that police in those units routinely use excessive force, lie in reports, exhibit racial animus and fabricate evidence, and that Early was violating defendants’ rights by failing to inform them of officers whose credibility was suspect.
Records obtained by the Telegram & Gazette show that Early would, within a month of receiving Pineiro’s complaint, assign a prosecutor to look into its claims and add a section to his website referencing a “Litigation Integrity Division.”
Should DiMasi, and other federal felons, face a ban on lobbying Beacon Hill? The SJC will decide
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated April 16, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Former Mass. House speaker Salvatore DiMasi appeared at a prehearing conference in 2019 on his appeal of Secretary of State William Galvin s denial of his application to register as a lobbyist.Jim Davis/Globe Staff
In the summer of 2009, former House speaker Salvatore DiMasiâs federal corruption charges hung like a haze over the State House, driving demand for a package of ethics and lobbying reforms.
More than a decade later, Massachusettsâ highest court will now decide whether that
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