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Gov. Maura Healey still hasn't picked someone to fill the first spot on the state's highest court to open up during her tenure, and she's about to get a second choice as well.
Gov. Maura Healey still hasn't picked someone to fill the first spot on the state's highest court to open up during her tenure, and she's about to get a second choice as well.
LOWELL — It wasn't the usual crowd gathered on Friday morning in Courtroom 17 of the Cornelius F. Kiernan Justice Center. On this day it was about 30 Lowell High students who filled the gallery seats, there to witness first hand the work of the Supreme Judicial Court.
Campbell’s office said the decision returns the case to Hampden Superior Court, where Walsh and Clinton will each face five counts of caretaker who wantonly or recklessly commits or permits abuse, neglect or mistreatment to an elder or disabled person.
In a 5-2 decision that reversed a lower court's dismissal of grand jury indictments, the Supreme Judicial Court said prosecutors should have a chance to try their case against Bennett Walsh, the facility's former superintendent, and David Clinton, its former medical director.