Lawyers for John Doe #1-13 objected to documents about their alleged crimes being made public and said they were "private citizens who face adverse and embarrassing collateral consequences if their name and image are published."
Probable cause hearings initially scheduled for this week have been halted by the court for more than two dozen people accused of paying for sex in a commercial sex ring that authorities said catered to “wealthy and well-connected clientele.”
A single justice of the state Supreme Judicial Courtcq on Wednesday postponed the legal proceedings against men suspected of buying sex from a high-end prostitution ring and gave them until Monday to contest a recent decision that magistrate hearings in their cases will be public.
Police arrested James Lee, 68, of Torrance, Calif., on the same day of his co-conspirators but in California, where a judge in Los Angeles ordered him detained until he could be extradited to Massachusetts.