Clancy Jury Asks for the Pill Bottles and the Knife. Still No Verdict.
The jury's first note requested two exhibits both sides fought over in closing. What the request signals, what it does not, and the five verdict options.
Legal News
Massachusetts Show Cause Hearings Are Secret. The Brockton Mayor’s Wasn’t.
A hearing most people have never heard of decides whether a criminal charge is ever filed. It happens in private, before someone who is not a judge, and the secrecy belongs to the accused, which means it can be waived.
Michael Proctor’s Cases Are Being Reviewed. A Milton Murder Case Is the First Test.
MSP's colonel said every case Proctor worked needs review. In Dedham this week, that stopped being an abstraction, and the legal standard for dismissal is harder than the headlines suggest.
No Verdict on Day One in the Lindsay Clancy Trial. Deliberations Resume Friday.
The jury deliberated about three and a half hours Thursday without reaching a verdict and sent no notes. They return Friday at 9 a.m.
The Lindsay Clancy Trial, Start to Finish: Five Weeks in One Place
Nobody ever disputed that she killed her children. That is the strange shape of this trial, and the reason it has been so hard to follow. The whole case, in order, as it goes to the jury.
Testimony Is Over in the Lindsay Clancy Trial. The Last Question Was About the Prosecution.
The last question the defense asked was not about psychiatry. It was about the prosecution's own opening statement, and the government's final witness agreed it minimized what Lindsay Clancy was going through.
Massachusetts Just Moved the PFML Employer Contribution. Here Is What the Statute Actually Says.
Two sections of a June act swap a pair of numbers in the PFML statute, moving the mandatory employer contribution from medical leave to family leave. A third section says the overall balance is supposed to stay the same.
Massachusetts’ New Immigration Law: Every Date and Duty That Now Applies
Parts took effect the day it was signed, including a 48-hour notice duty every employer now owes its workers. Other parts switch on in September and November. Here are the dates and what each one requires.
The Massachusetts Blue Envelope Program Starts September 1. Here Is How It Works.
A traffic stop asks a driver to do several things at once under stress. Starting September 1, autistic drivers in Massachusetts can carry an envelope that explains what an officer is seeing.
Who Is Steven Tompkins, the Suffolk County Sheriff on Trial?
He came to the job from the press office, not the jail. A decade running Suffolk County's jails, two ethics fines, and deep roots in Massachusetts Democratic politics.