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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A guilty verdict would not automatically end his tenure. The governor has no power to fire him, only the SJC can remove him, and the statute that empties the office is triggered by sentencing rather than conviction.
Four trial days in, prosecutors have called three Ascend witnesses and none has described the pressure the government alleged. Frank Perullo, the alleged victim, has not yet taken the stand.
