An initiative petition seeking to change state liquor-licensing laws remains alive after the Supreme Judicial Court on Monday ruled that Attorney General Maura Healey correctly certified it to appear before voters on November's ballot.
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The Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Joseph Pope, who was convicted in 1986 for his role in a drug-related murder in Uphams Corner two years earlier. The court ruled that an assistant Suffolk County district attorney withheld notes he took during the murder investigation that that might have helped the defense. Pope was one of two men convicted for the