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Last week Governor Deval Patrick announced an ambitious plan to eliminate Massachusetts’s Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) system and replace it with a new agency under the executive branch staffed entirely with full time…

Mary Louise Goodwin is on trial for assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after shooting her husband, Vince, in the shoulder. The couple has a rocky history and…

The June 1^st Supreme Court decision in Berghuis v. Thompkins, a case involving a drive-by shooting, has reversed a Sixth Circuit decision holding that a defendant’s silence during the course of a police…

The White House announced today that John Paul Kacavas (BCLS ‘90) is the nominee to be the next U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire.

In a press release today from Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Peter F. Neronha was recommended to President Obama as the next U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island. …

In late 2007, we addressed some of the issues that websites like www.whosearat.com raised.  (An Eagleionline.com article from 2007 explaining the controversial website appears after the jump. In short, some individuals were data mining public records of plea agreements in order to infer the identities of governmental informants. Individuals were then aggregating and publishing the results. The information arguably put the governmental informants a great risk, and potentially mortal danger.) On Friday, there was another development in the controversy…