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.
Registration for today's primary closed August 22. Question 4 would end that cutoff, though not in time for November. The Secretary of the Commonwealth is one of its ten first signers.
"After many hours of deliberation, we are unable to come to a unanimous decision." The judge sent them back without giving the deadlock instruction, and holding it in reserve was deliberate.
A claim circulating during deliberations says jurors wore the supporters' color. No outlet has reported it. What did happen on August 20 is more legally significant than the rumor.
The jury has three verdict slips and five options on each. If they cannot agree, Massachusetts has a specific instruction for that, and strict limits on how hard a judge may push.
After a man died on the third rail at Forest Hills, a question people ask after every serious injury on the T. The answer involves a notice requirement that ends more cases than any argument about fault.
Question 5 changes the 1986 law that returned $3 billion to taxpayers in 2022. Nearly all the money behind it came from a single entity that files nothing with the state.
