Legal News

Four district attorney races were contested. In three counties the September primary decides who exercises charging discretion for the next four years, because nobody else filed.

The framing that Wu backed insurgents against the establishment is wrong. In one of the three races she endorsed the incumbent, and he is the one who lost.

Koh lost a congressional primary by 145 votes in 2018. This time he won by more than 13,000. The late withdrawal that reshaped the field did not change the outcome.

Every incumbent who faced a challenger survived. Democratic turnout ran 106,000 ahead of 2022 and Republican turnout ran 20,000 behind. Four races still have no winner.

Twenty votes separate Brownsberger and Lander. Fourteen separate the candidates in the 9th Bristol. Nobody gets a recount unless they ask, and the window closes Thursday afternoon.

Rachael Rollins finished third. Kevin Hayden fell 111 votes short of a majority and won by more than 24 points, and with no Republican on the ballot the nomination decides the office.

The fastest-acting question on the ballot takes a zoning power from every city and town about thirty days after the election. It is also the most straightforwardly industry-funded measure of the nine.

Closings begin Wednesday. The defense built two weeks around the absence of a threat, and the statute Tompkins is charged under does not require one.

A woman was arrested for allegedly filming jurors leaving the Clancy trial. The statute is broader than most coverage suggests, and the effect on the case turns on one fact.

The jury has reported once that it cannot agree. What Massachusetts law permits from here, including the rule that stops this jury from ruling out first-degree murder and saying so.