Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

The state's highest court has upheld the first degree murder conviction of the Wareham man found guilty of killing 31-year-old Julio Barbosa outside of a New Bedford 7-Eleven in July 2012.

Evidence against a Taunton man arrested and charged with firearms offenses after a pat frisk during a traffic stop will not be allowed in court after a decision from the state's Supreme Judicial Court.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Tuesday that Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is legally authorized to collect revenues for his office through phone service fees, finding in his favor in a 2018 lawsuit alleging the office was conducting an "illegal kickback scheme."

A negligence lawsuit against the city of New Bedford and the county sheriff's office stemming from the 2013 death of Egidio Batista in protective custody has been allowed to proceed.

One man is getting out of prison after spending more than half his life there for a Fall River murder he committed in 1999, when he was just 17 years old.

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to get involved in a challenge to Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's executive orders issued during the COVID panic.

If Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey can't determine what a 'child born alive' means, she ought to resign.

Soliciting of any kind should be prohibited from roadsides and street corners. It is a safety hazard.

A state law that prohibits certain people from asking motorists for money along the roadway was struck down Tuesday by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The anti-panhandling law violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights because it is a "content-based regulation of protected speech in a public forum" that cannot withstand str

The state legislature has the power to check Baker's authority under the CDA but notes that lawmakers have thus far been reluctant to do so.