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After a police officer murdered George Floyd, and the Black Lives Matter movement took wing across America, many of us learned, for the first time, that one key model for contemporary police ...

Minors who are convicted in juvenile court of only first-time misdemeanor charges should have their cases dismissed, the Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday. The high court's ruling ...

Massachusetts’ highest court says that minors convicted of only misdemeanors in juvenile court must have those convictions dismissed. The Supreme Judicial Court’s Friday ruling stems from a case where ...